Finally, Tom chooses freedom and leaves home. Once her future is safe, he may have a chance to start a new life. Amanda wants Tom to demonstrate “Spartan endurance!” (Tennessee 32), and to find a husband for Laura. “I know I seem dreamy, but inside - well, I’m boiling!” he exclaims (Tennessee 62). He feels imprisoned both at work and home.
Tom is committed to poetry, but he has to work in a shoe warehouse to support his family. However, she is not dead inside and has feelings towards a young man. The outside world frightens the girl, and her way of escaping from reality is the glass collection. Laura is timid and unsocial due to physical disability. However, her efforts to make them succeed in life turn to unbearable pressure for both Laura and Tom. Amanda can hardly accept her present position, and as a devoted mother, she is fully committed to her children. The CharactersĪmanda Wingfield used to be the reigning beauty of a small town, but now she is an abandoned spouse living on the memories of long ago. Finally, the act of blowing out the candles probably means the end of all hopes for Laura and the end of the old life for Tom. The fire escape symbolizes getting away from reality, and the narrator’s monologues take place there. Laura strongly depends on her family and lives in isolation like a ghost. Another symbol for Laura’s ephemerality is her nickname “Blue Roses,” which Jim gives her in the following words, “They are common as – weeds, but you – well – you’re – Blue Roses!” (Tennessee 87).
The broken piece stands for the broken heart of the girl. Laura’s glass collection represents fragility and beauty, but it has no practical point. The glass is the most important symbol, as the name of the play suggests. The most notable feature of the play is its symbolism, which is demonstrated by the author in a variety of ways.
Among the main topics involved are the beauty and its vulnerability, the balance between social obligations and personal freedom, parental authority, memories of long ago, and escaping from reality. The story provides an insight into one unhappy family, in which each member feels lonely and wasted upon. The Glass Menagerie is a beautiful and appealing play written by Tennessee Williams in 1944.
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