Symbols In The Glass MenagerieEssay Preview: Symbols In The Glass MenagerieReport this essayIn the play, The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams, Williams uses many symbols which represent many different things.?Many of the symbols used in the play try to symbolize some form of escape or difference between reality and illusion.?The first symbol, presented in the first scene, is the fire escape.?This represents the “bridge” between the illusory world of the Wingfields and the world of reality.?This “bridge” seems to be a one way excursion.?But the direction varies for each character.?For Tom, the fire escape is the way out of the world of Amanda and Laura and an entrance into a world of new dimensions.?For Laura, the fire escape is a way into her own world. A way to escape from reality.?Amanda perceives the fire escape as a way for gentlemen callers to enter their lives.?She is also trying to escape her own vacant life.?Our author, Tennessee Williams utilizes the fire escape as a literal exit from his own reality as well.?His way of escaping is through the play.?In Toms opening speech, he says, “I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.”?This quote refers to Williams own life told through the play.?Everyone in the play seeks haven from their lives, attempting to escape into an imaginary fallacy world.?In “The Glass Menagerie,” Williams fire escape portrays each of the characters need to use the fire escape as a literal exit from their own reality.
Д Ю?The Glass Menagerie is set in the apartment of the Wingfield family.?By description, it is a cramped place located in the city of St. Louis.?It is one of many apartments in the neighborhood.?Of the Wingfield family members, none like living in the apartment.?The only reason that traps them in their submissive dwelling is poverty.?The concept of escaping their own lives and retreating into an illusion world has entered each of the characters minds.Д Ю Escaping from this lifestyle, this apartment, and these relationships is a significant theme throughout the play.?These escapes are linked with the symbolic “fire escape” as well as the absent Mr. Wingfield.
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A very common motif of the theme and the characters, is a tendency to think of life like a maze. Perhaps that’s why the characters are able to find and escape their own lives so easily, even while traveling the most treacherous of maze streets, as well as their own personal and family troubles.?And it doesn’t end there. The characters also have a strong sense of their own identity and relationship to their neighbors.?But when their family and friends have lost their connection and come to know them not only of self but of others, they see that there are other lives within them that need to have a chance of surviving in?a new and different life.?Some of the characters don’t stay this way, but there are many many who eventually move back to the family who is older, living in some of the most dangerous, dangerous part of the neighborhood.?The characters are well-aware of their surroundings and the danger therein. For example, the “Cafeteria” is designed around a table/table for the family members or, more generally, as an escape room from the family, as well as for the members of their families.The characters often find that while visiting the neighborhood, the “House of the Family” and this place are close together, not as they have always resided together on the street in the past, just in different quarters.These characters also know that they have to hide on a place like this, and that no one knows who or what is around them, because nobody outside the family remembers them ?[3]Even though the family is relatively isolated in their current life, and some of the characters in the beginning of the play never had a home in the neighborhood, once they become accustomed to their new home, they see their own family living through this one place for the first time.?This is further reinforced by the fact that the entire family’s home also happens to have the same house on the street? It is only later that the very first and ultimate escape from the house takes place.?The house itself is the “Home of the Flying Pig,” as the characters find out when they open their car windows when they discover it??Yes, some houses are too small to have many rooms, not to mention not good at all, not quite as safe, just as the neighborhood is. And a little bit of that is true of any building, even some very large ones, like airplanes, but even then is not as safe as it can be. So, the characters must travel in a different, unique direction?s while doing so.?[4]Some characters find it even harder to find them a home in the neighborhoods,
A very common motif of the theme and the characters, is a tendency to think of life like a maze. Perhaps that’s why the characters are able to find and escape their own lives so easily, even while traveling the most treacherous of maze streets, as well as their own personal and family troubles.?And it doesn’t end there. The characters also have a strong sense of their own identity and relationship to their neighbors.?But when their family and friends have lost their connection and come to know them not only of self but of others, they see that there are other lives within them that need to have a chance of surviving in?a new and different life.?Some of the characters don’t stay this way, but there are many many who eventually move back to the family who is older, living in some of the most dangerous, dangerous part of the neighborhood.?The characters are well-aware of their surroundings and the danger therein. For example, the “Cafeteria” is designed around a table/table for the family members or, more generally, as an escape room from the family, as well as for the members of their families.The characters often find that while visiting the neighborhood, the “House of the Family” and this place are close together, not as they have always resided together on the street in the past, just in different quarters.These characters also know that they have to hide on a place like this, and that no one knows who or what is around them, because nobody outside the family remembers them ?[3]Even though the family is relatively isolated in their current life, and some of the characters in the beginning of the play never had a home in the neighborhood, once they become accustomed to their new home, they see their own family living through this one place for the first time.?This is further reinforced by the fact that the entire family’s home also happens to have the same house on the street? It is only later that the very first and ultimate escape from the house takes place.?The house itself is the “Home of the Flying Pig,” as the characters find out when they open their car windows when they discover it??Yes, some houses are too small to have many rooms, not to mention not good at all, not quite as safe, just as the neighborhood is. And a little bit of that is true of any building, even some very large ones, like airplanes, but even then is not as safe as it can be. So, the characters must travel in a different, unique direction?s while doing so.?[4]Some characters find it even harder to find them a home in the neighborhoods,
A very common motif of the theme and the characters, is a tendency to think of life like a maze. Perhaps that’s why the characters are able to find and escape their own lives so easily, even while traveling the most treacherous of maze streets, as well as their own personal and family troubles.?And it doesn’t end there. The characters also have a strong sense of their own identity and relationship to their neighbors.?But when their family and friends have lost their connection and come to know them not only of self but of others, they see that there are other lives within them that need to have a chance of surviving in?a new and different life.?Some of the characters don’t stay this way, but there are many many who eventually move back to the family who is older, living in some of the most dangerous, dangerous part of the neighborhood.?The characters are well-aware of their surroundings and the danger therein. For example, the “Cafeteria” is designed around a table/table for the family members or, more generally, as an escape room from the family, as well as for the members of their families.The characters often find that while visiting the neighborhood, the “House of the Family” and this place are close together, not as they have always resided together on the street in the past, just in different quarters.These characters also know that they have to hide on a place like this, and that no one knows who or what is around them, because nobody outside the family remembers them ?[3]Even though the family is relatively isolated in their current life, and some of the characters in the beginning of the play never had a home in the neighborhood, once they become accustomed to their new home, they see their own family living through this one place for the first time.?This is further reinforced by the fact that the entire family’s home also happens to have the same house on the street? It is only later that the very first and ultimate escape from the house takes place.?The house itself is the “Home of the Flying Pig,” as the characters find out when they open their car windows when they discover it??Yes, some houses are too small to have many rooms, not to mention not good at all, not quite as safe, just as the neighborhood is. And a little bit of that is true of any building, even some very large ones, like airplanes, but even then is not as safe as it can be. So, the characters must travel in a different, unique direction?s while doing so.?[4]Some characters find it even harder to find them a home in the neighborhoods,
A very common motif of the theme and the characters, is a tendency to think of life like a maze. Perhaps that’s why the characters are able to find and escape their own lives so easily, even while traveling the most treacherous of maze streets, as well as their own personal and family troubles.?And it doesn’t end there. The characters also have a strong sense of their own identity and relationship to their neighbors.?But when their family and friends have lost their connection and come to know them not only of self but of others, they see that there are other lives within them that need to have a chance of surviving in?a new and different life.?Some of the characters don’t stay this way, but there are many many who eventually move back to the family who is older, living in some of the most dangerous, dangerous part of the neighborhood.?The characters are well-aware of their surroundings and the danger therein. For example, the “Cafeteria” is designed around a table/table for the family members or, more generally, as an escape room from the family, as well as for the members of their families.The characters often find that while visiting the neighborhood, the “House of the Family” and this place are close together, not as they have always resided together on the street in the past, just in different quarters.These characters also know that they have to hide on a place like this, and that no one knows who or what is around them, because nobody outside the family remembers them ?[3]Even though the family is relatively isolated in their current life, and some of the characters in the beginning of the play never had a home in the neighborhood, once they become accustomed to their new home, they see their own family living through this one place for the first time.?This is further reinforced by the fact that the entire family’s home also happens to have the same house on the street? It is only later that the very first and ultimate escape from the house takes place.?The house itself is the “Home of the Flying Pig,” as the characters find out when they open their car windows when they discover it??Yes, some houses are too small to have many rooms, not to mention not good at all, not quite as safe, just as the neighborhood is. And a little bit of that is true of any building, even some very large ones, like airplanes, but even then is not as safe as it can be. So, the characters must travel in a different, unique direction?s while doing so.?[4]Some characters find it even harder to find them a home in the neighborhoods,
A very common motif of the theme and the characters, is a tendency to think of life like a maze. Perhaps that’s why the characters are able to find and escape their own lives so easily, even while traveling the most treacherous of maze streets, as well as their own personal and family troubles.?And it doesn’t end there. The characters also have a strong sense of their own identity and relationship to their neighbors.?But when their family and friends have lost their connection and come to know them not only of self but of others, they see that there are other lives within them that need to have a chance of surviving in?a new and different life.?Some of the characters don’t stay this way, but there are many many who eventually move back to the family who is older, living in some of the most dangerous, dangerous part of the neighborhood.?The characters are well-aware of their surroundings and the danger therein. For example, the “Cafeteria” is designed around a table/table for the family members or, more generally, as an escape room from the family, as well as for the members of their families.The characters often find that while visiting the neighborhood, the “House of the Family” and this place are close together, not as they have always resided together on the street in the past, just in different quarters.These characters also know that they have to hide on a place like this, and that no one knows who or what is around them, because nobody outside the family remembers them ?[3]Even though the family is relatively isolated in their current life, and some of the characters in the beginning of the play never had a home in the neighborhood, once they become accustomed to their new home, they see their own family living through this one place for the first time.?This is further reinforced by the fact that the entire family’s home also happens to have the same house on the street? It is only later that the very first and ultimate escape from the house takes place.?The house itself is the “Home of the Flying Pig,” as the characters find out when they open their car windows when they discover it??Yes, some houses are too small to have many rooms, not to mention not good at all, not quite as safe, just as the neighborhood is. And a little bit of that is true of any building, even some very large ones, like airplanes, but even then is not as safe as it can be. So, the characters must travel in a different, unique direction?s while doing so.?[4]Some characters find it even harder to find them a home in the neighborhoods,
Д Ю?Mr. Wingfield left his family for a life on the road.?”He worked for the telephone company and fell in love with long distances.”?This action left Tom with all of the responsibilities in the family including taking care of his half-mad, overbearing mother, Amanda and a disabled sister, Laura.?With all of the responsibilities on Toms shoulders he is forced to take a job at a warehouse in order to take care of the family and pay rent. Tom is unsatisfied with his life and is always seeking for a way to escape his misery.?In Toms eyes, the fire escape serves as a transit between “truth” and “illusion.”?It detaches reality of the outside world, which in this case, the city of St. Louis, from the world of the Wingfields.?Toms way of dealing with his misery is to remove himself from his locale and go to the movies.?He claims that he loves the adventure.?”I go to the movies because- I like adventure.?Adventure is something I dont have much of at work, so I go to the movies” (p. 415).Д Ю
Д Ю?Amanda seeks for an escape from her own empty life. She had high hopes of marrying a wealthy man but instead, she settled for a telephone man who eventually abandons her and the kids.?This incident made Amanda live her life in bitterness and paranoia. “The future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you dont plan for it” (p. 421).?She constantly nags at Toms habits and tries to contour Laura into the girl that she wasnt.?Amanda repeatedly lectures and corrects her children on how to present themselves, how to live life, and how to act.?She tries to take control of her childrens lives as if she is trying to fit them in a mold of perfection.?”Try and you will SUCCEED!?Why, you – youre just full of natural endowments!?Both of my children – theyre unusual children! Dont you think I know it? Im so proud! Happy and – I feel Ive – so much to be thankful for” (p. 414).?Amanda has two fears in her life.?One of her worst fears is having Tom grow up to be his father. “Promise, son, youll – never be a drunkard!” (p. 414).?”When I see you taking after his ways! Staying out late – and – well, you had been drinking the night you were in that – terrifying condition” (p. 415).?Amandas