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The Glass Menagerie And Death Of A Salesman Analysis

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The Glass Menagerie was a well written novel that I enjoyed because of all the different aspects of the characters lives and views of things. For example Laura an older single mother who wants the best for her two grown children Laura who is 23 years old and Tom who is the older brother. There father Mr. Wingfield abandoned them for long distance traveling and never came back so Laura is taking care of them on her own. Her daughter Laura is shy and quiet girl who has a crippled leg and cannot work because of it and her oldest son Tom is just like his father and wants to get out of Chicago and travel but he works for a factory to provide for his family. So that is the situation in the novel. The novel had little hints now and then about what was going to happen like from the characters talking,the subtitles, and the dramatic music that played throughout the play, so it was really easy to understand. The reason I chose this novel was because it was about a play and because it was one of the shortest books. The Glass Menagerie reminded me of another novel about a play called “Death of a Salesman” that I read from my last book project just like this one in ninth grade. In a way both novels “The Glass Menagerie” and “Death of a Salesman” are very similar because both families in the novels, the Wingfield family and the Loman family have the same difficulties and situations like having no money, job difficulties, stressful lives, running away from fears and worries, and husbands

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