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The Glass Menagerie theme
Title: The Glass Menagerie theme
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1384 | Pages: 5.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Glass Menagerie theme
The mother's expectations
"The Glass Menagerie," a play by Tennessee Williams, gives us a quick picture into the lives of three completely different humans beings. The mother Amanda Wingfield, is a women who is completely in love with her two children. her love although sometimes comes across in a very mean and dominant manner "unwittingly cruel at times" (1898), but she is always present for her children. Laura, her oldest out of two children, is handicapped …showed first 75 words of 1384 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1384 total…high expectations of her mother, Laura lives a life of shyness. This makes Amanda upset for her only wish is "success and happiness" for her "precious children" (1918). Tom just cannot avoid following in his fathers footsteps. Tom would
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love to escape his role as the man of the home without hurting or taking away the love of Amanda or Laura. Amanda only does what she thinks is best but does not always do that.
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