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THE GLASS MENAGERIE
By: Tennessee Williams
Trapped within the confines of a St. Louis apartment building and the Great Depression, the Wingfield family dreams of escape: budding poet Tom envisions a future on the open seas, his sister Laura retreats from the resent into a fantasy world of glass animals, and matriarch Amanda waltzes through her past with seventeen gentlemen callers from the Mississippi delta of her youth. The futu ....
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.... to justify his concerns and feelings of insecurity. By making himself believe that he is a good man, he convinces himself that his needs are greater then his family's. Claiming to be an artist of emotions, he projects to the audience a disguise of control and masculinity. His biggest dreams flash before his eyes on a screen in a darkened room; yet, in that little apartment he faces only the dimness. Even during his reflections on the "fire ....
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