Tennessee Williams, the author of the historical fiction play The Glass Menagerie, wrote the play in the style of retrospection. As we see the effects from youthful choices and situations on the present, one gets a very intimate relationship with the past. Like a domino effect, each and every action by one person affects another; a kind of holistic act of consequence. For example, Amanda Wingfield’s husband leaves her, throwing her into a state of dishevelment and disenchantment, which affects her son Tom (whose point of view the play is told from), and daughter Laura. Amanda can be perceived as a villain, an harbinger of stress and upset to other characters. She is infatuated with her past as a southern belle, detaching from reality and getting irritable when events don't go exactly as she planned them in her head. She often takes these feelings out on her less than perfect children, Laura, who is cripplingly shy and wears a leg …show more content…
She wants to have her children experience the same life as she did before it fell to pieces, showing the desire to live vicariously through them, although they do not have the same resources she did, making this desire unreasonable. The reader can see this yearning to bring her past to the present when she vigorously tries to get Laura suitors, just like she had as a girl. She enlists Tom to get Laura's high school crush to go on a date with her, which subsequently goes very wrong when in the end, Laura's heart ends up broken. Amanda's flagrant obsession with regaining her high society flair ends up hurting many people in the end, doing exactly the opposite of what her intended purpose was. Although partially an antagonist, she genuinely cares about her family as her intention is to give her children happy lives, even though they might not be the kind of happy her children
She pretends to be confident and happy but inside she just wants someone to care about her. Staying in Curley’s house is driving her crazy but whenever she comes out she is shunned, cast off because of who she is married to and what she looks like. Her husband, Curley also hates it when she steps out of the
Tennessee Williams' play, The Glass Menagerie, describes three separate characters, their dreams, and the harsh realities they face in a modern world. The Glass Menagerie exposes the lost dreams of a southern family and their desperate struggle to escape reality. Williams' use of symbols adds depth to the play. The glass menagerie itself is a symbol Williams uses to represent the broken lives of Amanda, Laura and Tom Wingfield and their inability to live in the present.
Her character is evidently presented in the story as a very pushy persona who dearly loves herself to an extent of being myopic (O’Connor 36). Similarly, the author paints her as an authoritative and manipulative person. This is confirmed when she manages to push the family to reschedule its plan. Her mean character is noticeably shown when she wants to visit the house she used to live in when she was young. Following her conversation with her son Bailey, the old woman tries to pressure him to change his plan to her advantage.
Amanda Wingfield, in The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, is extremely self-assured, devout to the past, controlling, and delusional. She is faced with raising two children during the Great Depression after being deserted by her husband and is keen on keeping her children close. This is mainly due to the fact that she is still haunted by her husband leaving her. Unfortunately, she uses guilt and criticism to manipulate her children to keep them close and control their lives. Amanda’s browbeat attitude and behavior is the reason she is forsaken by Mr. Wingfield, and is now swaying her son, Tom, a similar way.
It also showed that her character had the hardest time accepting reality because her shyness sheltered and kept her from exploring the world outside of her home. This was emphasized by Amanda’s lack of concern for her children as she was blinded by her own needs.
She smokes, drinks constantly and heavily, and is openly promiscuous. She is already engaged to Mike, who is prospective husband number three, despite being divorced twice. She is still financially dependent on men, but she also makes it clear that no one owns her or tells her what to do. She loves Jake, but she refuses to commit to a relationship with him because he cannot satisfy her sexually. The novel is set just after the end of World War 1 and that seems to be the reason for why all the characters seem to be so lost within their individual, and social lives.
The submissions for this assignment are posts in the assignment's discussion. Below are the discussion posts for Marc-Angelo Javier, or you can view the full discussion. from Discussion #1 - The Glass Menagerie Sep 14, 2017 11:07pm Click to change profile picture for Marc-Angelo Javier In the Glass Menagerie, the play includes Tom Wingfield, Laura Wingfield, Amanda Wingfield, and Jim O'Connor.
On scene III my interpretation of Laura ,upon which myself as Maria had read her personality , reflects a rather reserved character. Coming across with the challenge of problems and eventually the control of this challenge, Laura has the tendency to approach it by internalizing it. Particullarly , by examining the third scene of the Glass Menagerie more thoroughly, I notice specific examples that actually support and explain the previous statement. Taking them as the most effective ones , I focus on the quarelling scene between Tom and Amanda and the twinkling of the shuttering glass during the end of the scene. As a result, these two incidents draw my attention to the formation of Laura's introvert character.
In “Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams, a compliment to realism of the play, is the theme of fragility. To display each character properly, emotions from script to screen must invoke the same, if not greater, response to the play. With that in mind, an apt casting for “Glass Menagerie” would be George Blagden as Tom Wingfield, Sophie Kennedy Clark as Laura Wingfield, Debra Jo Rupp as Amanda Wingfield and Ward Horton as Jim. As the central character, Tom Wingfield manages to coat the story with an eerie calm, that nearly undermines the gravity of the story.
Furthermore, the fates of those characters who cannot accept reality “In the Glass Menagerie” were Amanda Whitfield, Tom Whitfield, Laura Whitfield, and Jim O’Conner. Amanda still thinks she is a young Southern Belle that she should have financial gain. Amanda has not accepted the fact in her mind that these factors are no longer an option for her. Amanda pushes her children Tom Whitfield to be a replicable businessman, and pushes her daughter to go to school to take business classes which this is something either cared to be.
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In addition to emphasizing the impacts of human nature through sex and sexuality, Williams also writes about the importance of human relationships within his plays to convey the value of human connections in the sense of family and romance. His bond with his sister Rose was one of the most important to him, as he wrote one of his first famous plays, The Glass Menagerie, about her (Barnett). He was very close with both her and his mother, and Rose’s early lobotomy and schizophrenia were the source of his distress as he watched someone he loved deteriorate so quickly (Morton). In experiencing the mother-daughter relationship shared between his mother and his sister, he was able to incorporate it into his other plays, such as The Rose Tattoo
Objects in stories are not always just things, authors sometimes use these objects to represent more abstract ideas. They use t characterization to give information about the character and then use objects to represent unique qualities in that person. In the play, The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams, the author uses the unicorn glass piece to show Laura’s unique qualities of her shy and timorous character that make her less functional in society. Tennessee Williams uses the unicorn figure’s uniqueness to represent how Laura doesn’t truly fit anywhere in society. She is presented as extremely diffident and is unable to help support her family.
The complexity of Amanda's character directly affects her action and dialogue with her children. In her role as mother she exhibits an overwhelming desire to see her children succeed in life. In trying to push them toward her ideal of success, she at times unwittingly hurts them even though she means well. Her actions often hide her intense love for her children, but it is an important driving force in her motivations. She loves them too well--at times to a point of smothering them (perhaps the reason for the departure of her husband)--which results in her attempt to push them towards all the good things she has known and remembered and away from anything that does not suit her ideal.
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