glass menagerie

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…on the stage, like the picture of the missing, smiling father, or the pictures and phrases lit from behind through silhouettes that are supposed to represent things in the characters' minds. The stage is set very sparsely to suggest what is stuck in the narrator's memory, not what the scene really looked like. The playwright suggests in the prologue of the play that this is a "memory" play and not reality at all. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**