CHARACTER’S ILLUSIONS THROUGHOUT THE GLASS MENAGERIE Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie is about the struggle with the hardships reality throws at the characters. In this American memory play, produced in 1945, Amanda Wingfield hides from life and lives hers through separate illusions. Amanda resides in an apartment in St. Louis with her two children, Laura and Tom, the narrator. The play circulates around the Wingfields and Jim who is a gentleman caller. In an aside …showed first 75 words of 1199 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1199 total…haze of desire, urge, and originality, rejecting individual growth and accomplishment, in what might be presumed a wasted life. October 13, 2000 ENG 121 N Works Cited Primary: Clifford, John & Schilb, John. Making Literature Matter. Williams, Tennessee. The Glass Menagerie. Mass: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 1945. Secondary: Falk, Signi. Tennessee Williams. New York: Twayne Publishers Inc, 1961 Nelson, Benjamin. “The Play is Memory.” The Twentieth Century Interpretations of the Glass Menagerie. Ed. Thomas Colchie. New Jersey: Prentice Hall Inc, 1983. 87-96.