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A 3 page paper which compares and contrasts Tennessee Williams’ play The Glass Menagerie with his short story Portrait of a Girl in Glass. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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is The Glass Menagerie. Interestingly enough, this particular play began with the writing of a short story that would ultimately be adapted and altered to become the infamous play. That
short story is Portrait of a Girl in Glass. The following paper compares and contrasts the two stories. Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie and Portrait of a Girl
in Glass The premise of both stories is essentially the same. Both stories involve a family comprised of a mother, a son, and a daughter. There is also a male
visitor as well. The play, however, presents a far more dire and dismal look at the family and its condition as opposed to the short story which offers a bit
less of such elements. For example, in the story of the girl Williams does not have her actually physically deformed, but in the play she has a physical condition. But,
in the story she suffers from a mental disability which is partially seen in a description of her from the story: "Laura...made no positive motion toward the world but stood
at the edge of the water, so to speak, with feet that anticipated too much cold to move" (Williams [2] 10). In the play the gentleman who comes to
visit is an old school friend of the son and daughter. In the play there is a similar sense of expectation involving this man as Tom indicates when he states,
"H]e is the long delayed but always expected something that we live for" (Williams [1]). But, in the story one sees the following relationship: "She treats the characters in her
favorite book as real and responds to her gentleman caller not because they had shared the same high school, but because, in her mind, he resembles a character from that
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