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A 6 page paper which examines the playwright’s innovative use of symbols in his award-winning 1944 drama. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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6 pages (~225 words per page)
File: TG15_TGgmsym.rtf
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Menagerie, is deeply laden with symbolism. Nothing is simply as it appears; it has a myriad of meanings, some of them complimentary and some of them and some of
them conflicting. But that is precisely the point Williams is making through his innovative use of symbolism - life is never quite as it appears on the surface.
The Wingfields may seem to outsiders as being an average Missouri family. But when seen through the vantage point of Tom and his memories, their dysfunction shines through, and
collectively, the family resembles a white-hot candle that could be extinguished at any moment. The characters themselves serve as important symbols and provide considerable insight into the psychological drama.
Family matriarch Amanda Wingfield is a single parent who is struggling with the unhappiness over her dreary tenement existence that has turned her into an overbearing shrew. She longs
not for the dead-end of mundane today, but for her southern debutante past where opportunities seemed limitless. Amanda feels woefully out of place in this modern world, and she
yearns to return to the plantation porch, where as the local belle of the ball, she could have her pick of any of Blue Mountains finest male suitors. She
makes frequent mention of Blue Mountain and Blue Roses, and one can assume this symbolizes the way she feels about her life, blue and depressed. Her first name emphasizes
"man" and how important it was to her to be the focus of male attention. The name is also similar to abandon, which is how the bitter woman feels
about her unsatisfying life - abandoned by her husband and by the genteel southern society she adored. It doesnt take long for Amanda to reveal "herself as a symbol
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