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The Glass Menagerie: A Study in Symbolism
In the drama, The Glass Menagerie (1945), Tennessee Williams reflects upon personal experiences he and his family encountered during the Depression of the 1930s. As a lower class family, the characters are placed in the slums of St. Louis in 1935. The protagonist, Tom Wingfield, is the narrator and Williams surrogate. Living with his mother and si ....
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somehow set apart from. But since I have a poets
weakness for symbols, I am using this character also
as a symbol; he is the long-delayed but always expected
something that we live for (23).
Williams gives the reader many emblems throughout the play; there are three of them are especially interesting. The unicorn symbolizes Lauras uniqueness, the picture of Mr. Wingfield represents his strong influence on his deserted family, and M ....
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