Symbolism Imagery in The Glass Menagerie
... The play begins with Tom Wingfield introducing “The Glass Menagerie” as memory of his own past and there are only four main characters within the play. ... Laura also spends an enormous amount of time looking at her glass animal figurines, her “Glass Menagerie”, her private little world. Laura relates her world to this glass menagerie seeing that she’s so delicate and fragile just like the collection. ... While dancing, they bump into her collection and break the horn off of her glass unicorn. ... Laura’s glass menagerie is her private world and the breaking of it. The glass unicorn is Laura’s singularity, her return to reality, and her return to her retreat back into her world. ... Laura is living in a fantasy world, trying to escape through her little glass collection. ... (summary central 3) WORKS CITED The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams http://www. ... com/lit/menagerie/summary.html Symbols of the Glass Menagerie http://www. ... html The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams http://www. ... html The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams http://www. ... html The Glass Menagerie – Escape Theme http://www. ... htm The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams http://summarycentral. ... htm Williams, Tennessee “The Glass Menagerie” 1944, 1234-1289