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A 5 page paper which examines the symbols in Tennessee Williams’ play “The Glass Menagerie.” Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
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The family consists of a mother, a daughter and a son. Throughout this story Williams offers symbols that reflect the nature of the people and their psychological condition. The following
paper examines symbols in Williams play. The Setting One of the most powerful symbols in the play is the setting which
is presented in the very beginning of the play. The audience/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). These introductory images present the reader/audience with symbols of the oppression and the decay present in the world
around the characters. Through the decaying setting, and also a setting that is quite dreamlike, the story begins on a very allusive note. And, these are further emphasized by the
character of Tom who comes onto the scene and tells the audience, "Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite
of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion" (Williams 4). Such a presentation lays
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