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A 9 page paper which examines the symbolic images in Tennessee Williams’ play “The Glass Menagerie.” Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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although they hope and dream of more. It is the story of a mother and her two children, both relatively grown. All of whom wish for more in life. Although
this is a relatively simple story with little in the way of a powerful plot, it is a story that is filled with a great deal of symbolism and imagery.
The following paper examines various elements of symbolism and imagery seen in this play as they relate to truths that must be revealed for the characters. Symbolism in
"The Glass Menagerie" Setting In the very opening of the play the audience and the reader is introduced to a very symbolic setting that seems to speak multitudes about the
imagery that will be presented in the play. As one critic notes, his "set design elements take on symbolic significance" (The Glass Menagerie: Week #11). Williams presents the following description
of this setting: "The Wingfield apartment is in the rear of the building, one of those vast hive-like conglomerations of cellular living-units that flower as warty growths in overcrowded urban
centers of lower middle-class population and are symptomatic of the impulse of this largest and fundamentally enslaved section of American society to avoid fluidity and differentiation and to exist and
function as one interfused mass of automatism" (Williams 3). This is a setting that exists perhaps in every large city in the nation. It is very symbolic of the
conditions experienced, therefore, by many people and establishes that these characters and this setting are not unique. But, at the same time it makes a clear symbolic comment on the
all but futile existence of the characters that will be introduced by the main character Tom. There is also a very powerful element of symbolism in the words "flower
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