In the Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams presents a dysfunctional family whose members find refuge in separate, illusory worlds in order to escape from the reality of their lives. By the end of the play Tom leaves on an uncertain path and is haunted by the regret of his family. It is Williams belief that one cannot move forwards on an unknown path because there is nothing that can be done; you must follow the path that was intended for you. Even if that means to give up your needs.
Amanda is the mother of the family and come from a rich life in the blue mountains. Throughout the play we see her reminisce about her time there. She had the pleasure of money and many house workers. It is clear that she is unhappy about the way that her life
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Amanda is hiding from her worst fear that they will be "eating the crust of humility all their lives." Amanda tries to help their situation by bringing in more money through her magazine sales, pushing Laura toward business school and then toward marriage, but she is ill equipped to cope with their situation. Amanda was raised to be a woman of privilege. She did not expect to be a deserted single mother. It is this stress between her real life and what she expected her life to be that causes her to retreat into the stories of her past .But the reality of life is that we get one chance to live it. The only thing that we can change is the present moment. We are not able to go back and live what has already happened. She need to embrace what she has, stop living in the past, and allow life to take her and her family on their own …show more content…
She has magnified this limp until it has affected her entire personality. Laura's over sensitive nature makes her think that everyone notices her limp; it becomes for her a huge stumbling block to normal living. She cannot get over it and into the real world. Her inability to overcome this defect causes her to withdraw into her world of illusion. The limp then becomes symbolic of Laura's inner nature. As Tom says, it's not just Laura's being crippled that makes her different, but she is just different. So she lives in a world of old phonograph records and glass animals.And then the gentleman caller arrives. For the first time we see Laura's inner charm. The charm that she had all the time but hid away because she was trying so hard to hide who she was. She was scared and unsure of what was to come of the future. It was not until Jim arrived that we could she that that whp she was and the path she was to take only needed her to be herself. She didn't plan to act any different it was what was natural that took her further than anytime
She worried about her mom leaving or giving her up like her own mother did, she also thought that even good people could be bad if they had the opportunity so she didn’t
It was disheartening to see her own parents still living the same life but felt like they never made the effort to change their situation. Something Jeannette
As the story progresses we come to understand the reason behind all of this. Unfortunately her home life is not the best as she lost her brother and her mother a victim of attempting
Throughout the book, she was faced with challenges normal children shouldn’t
not only does she make fun of herself, but she also has a great sense of humor. The little details she puts on her stories will make you picture it in your mind. She just doesn't want her readers to see her as a handicap person, but a person who wants the world to see her as a tough woman. One whom the fates, gods, viruses have not been kind, but who can face the brutal truth of her disabilities.
This caused her to run away, and live at the Boatwright sisters’ house. There, she got a mother figure and was much happier. She also learned many things about her mother while she was there. She finally is somewhere where everybody loves her.
The Glass Collection is a memory play, and its activity is drawn from the recollections of the (individual recounting the story), Tom Wingfield. Tom is a character in the play, which is set in St. Louis in 1937. He is a (needing something incredible) artist who hard works in a shoe distribution center to help his mom, Amanda, and sister, Laura. Mr. Wingfield, Tom and Laura's dad, kept running off years prior and, with the exception of one postcard, has not been gotten notification from since. Amanda, (at first/before different things happened) from a pleasant and benevolent Southern family, gives/engages her kids frequently with stories of her serene youth and the scores of sentimental interests who once pursued her.
Many people are disabled and have trouble doing things. In fact, a young boy named“Jude was so severely disabled he could not speak or write, he was miraculously able to verbalize the alleged abuse….” (Rosenberg). As a young child, Jude could not talk, or even function, and he was abused because of his condition. This relates to Lennie because just like the child, Lennie is so, so, so disabled that he can barely speak full sentences, write, and was abused.
She started experiencing the brutal truth of the outer world as when her mother was alive she was given every comfort never made her realize that she was a slave. This clearly means that to deal with the hardship around
The letter that Laura had written before she hung herself, whit quotes which closer explaining her difficult condition. She was bitten and rapped by her father. Scene 4: We have a picture of the home from the beginning, and Eliza who is burning the house down.
2. Amanda wants the best for her daughter and feels that the only way to do so is by her and Tom figuring it out for her since she has done nothing for herself yet. C. Amanda wants to plan a future for her children so she knows that they will be well taken care of. 1. "You are the only young man I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes present, the present past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don’t plan for it!"
She struggled with how the society and her family shaped who she was. She was exposed to her family first which made her behave the way she did under her family’s house. Jeanette struggled with her family by taking care of the house, beings told bending the rules is okay and the acceptance of her Mom’s and Dad’s homelessness. When Jeannette left her family and went to live in New York, she becomes an individual. She fends for herself and gets her life together.
‘“I said no. This is ridiculous. I'm exhausted. I'm not filling it back in”’ (104). In the end she left them to go and be spoiled by her parents in the city.
Mental and physical disabilities are shown through how the different characters interact with their environment. Disabilities can create obstacles in a person's life but they also allow for other people to create an identity for them. Steinbeck shows that disabilities can create a political statement. They all had dreams to be something better than what they were but the tag that society gave them they were unable to pursue their thoughts and ideas. All these characters possed the same characteristic of being hopeless but in reality if they were given hope they may have been able to achieve their ambitions, prospects, and
Through the unique interplay between her characters, O’Connor highlights the irony of the able-bodied perspective to convey the humorous notion of moral rehabilitation. Flannery O’Connor uses disability in many of her short stories as an ironic device to denote a larger, societal theme. In “The Lame