Though, sometimes Amanda’s behavior is out of accord with times and looks absurd, she’s a good and responsible mother anyway. The play falls into two parts: the preparation for the gentleman callers and the visit of a gentleman. Hungering for the big changes in life and the country, he is caught in an awkward dilemma between supporting the family and leaving home to pursue his dream ( Williams, 2000 ).

And Tom the son working in a shoe factory, inherits his father’s longing for faraway places. Because of her physical disability, Laura the daughter is lost in her own world with glass animals. Amanda, the mother, being deserted by her husband, lives in the memory when she was young and popular among the gentlemen. Wingfield―left home long ago and his picture with big smile is the only thing that reminds the audience of him in the family. It is about the tragic story of a three-member family. There are seven scenes and only four main characters: Amanda, Laura, Tom and Jim O’Connor. Luis United States in the 1930s―the Depression period.

“Without a doubt, The Glass Menagerie also helped Williams attain his lasting position in the canon of American drama” ( Bloom, 2007 ). The Glass menagerie, as his autobiographic tragedy, is one of Williams’ most accepted plays and won recognition both from his own times and the current society. He left us with some important plays in American theater such as A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Night of the Iguana, and Orpheus Descending ( Bloom, 2007 ). Tennessee Williams is one of the successful contemporary American play writers, who has been conferred several New York Critics Circle Awards, Pulitzer Prizes, a National Arts Club gold medal for literature, several honorary degrees, and countless other awards.

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