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A 4 page paper which examines the significance of setting, particularly time and place in Williams’ groundbreaking theatrical debut. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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the most important actor on the stage because though it is playing its role understatedly - sometimes the audience may not be immediately aware of its meaning - it symbolically
serves as a constant reminder of the storys "where" and "when." It is the setting that also answers the question of "Why?" For example, why are the characters
where they are? Why do the characters act as they do? Why does time and place affect how we live, think, and perceive the world? In Tennessee
Williamss groundbreaking theatrical debut, The Glass Menagerie (1944), his innovative use of setting forever changed the way plays were staged. Basing the drama on his real family life in
St. Louis, The Glass Menagerie masterfully employed setting from beginning to end as a way of shattering "the pleasant guise of illusion" not simply for Amanda Wingfield and her children
Tom (modeled after Williams, whose real name was Thomas) and Laura but also for all Americans who had lived through the Great Depression only to be plunged into World War
II (Williams 22). Tom Wingfield is not simply the plays protagonist, he is also the narrator or visual magician who has "tricks" in his pocket (Williams 22). He frequently
reminds the audience that they are watching a "memory play," which means he possesses the ability to take them back in time at will (Williams 23). The time he
returns to is the 1930s and the place is a tiny, bleak St. Louis tenement shared by the disillusioned Tom, his emotionally wounded sibling Laura, and his mother, Amanda, who
cant accept that she is no longer the belle of the ball with her pick of Southern plantation suitors. As Tom explains, "I turn back time. I reverse
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