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Summary of Glass Menagerie
Title: Summary of Glass Menagerie
Category: Literature / Novels
Details: Words: 1288 | Pages: 5.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Summary of Glass Menagerie
‘The Glass Menagerie’ is written by Tennessee Williams, and takes place just before the Second World War starts in Europe. USA has just got over the large depression in the thirties, but the threat of war is hanging as a dark cloud overhead. In the play we follow a lower middle-class family living somewhere in the middle of USA. This is a bit strange, as the play is somewhat southern in its style.
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…showed last 75 words of 1288 total…the theme of Escape throughout ‘The Glass Menagerie’ to demonstrate the hopelessness and futility of each character’s dreams. All the characters seem to believe that a clean cut is possible, but in the end of the play no one except Mr. Wingfield has made a successful escape. Tennessee Williams is saying that running away is not a way of solving your problems, and that true freedom only can be found through confronting your problems.
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