Symbols In "The Glass Menagerie"
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"The Glass Menagerie", "Blue Mountain", "The Fire Escape" and "The Unicorn"
are symbols in the " Glass Menagerie" Discuss Williams use of these symbols
in the "Glass Menagerie".
Mirroring, the social and economic despair of the thirties in the
U.S, "The Glass Menagerie" in nostalgia for a past wor ....
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.... she was pursued by ‘gentleman callers'. Amanda is desperate
to find her daughter, Laura, a husband, the kind of gentleman caller that
she herself longed for, who wouldn't have deserted her. She foists her
illusions on her unwilling children, living in the past with pretensions to
glory.
"In the South we had so many servants. Gone. All vestige of
gracious living! I wasn't prepared for what the future brought me". p.64.
The glass menagerie represents an escape from reality f ....
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