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The Glass Menagerie: A Study In Symbolism
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In the drama, The Glass Menagerie (1945), Tennessee Williams reflects upon personal experiences he and his family encountered during the Depression of the 1930’s. As a lower class family, the characters are placed in the slums of St. Louis in 1935. The protagonist, Tom Wingfield, is the narrator ....
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....he play; there are three of them are especially interesting. The unicorn symbolizes Laura’s uniqueness, the picture of Mr. Wingfield represents his strong influence on his deserted family, and Malvolio’s coffin trick signifies Tom’s suffocating lifestyle.
The unicorn is a symbolic representation of ways that Laura is unique or unusual. The first facet of the unicorn, its horn, refers to ways that Laura is an unusual person, such as in her may escape mechanisms. Laura’s escape devices includ.... |
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