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The Glass Menagerie: Symbols
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The play The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams, Williams uses many symbols
which represent many different things. Many of the symbols used in the play try
to symbolize some form of escape or difference between reality and illusion.
The first symbol, presented in the first scene, is the fire es ....
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Seaman's Union.
Another symbol, which deals with both Amanda and Laura, is Jim O'Connor. To
Laura, Jim represents the one thing she fears and does not want to face, reality.
Jim is a perfect example of "the common man." A person with no real outstanding
quality. In fact, Jim is rather awkward, which can be seen when he dances with
Laura. To Amanda, Jim represents the days of her youth, when she went frolicking
about picking jonquils and supposedly having "seventeen gentlemen callers on on.... |
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