Part 1 of Essay
"The Glass Menagerie", "Blue Mountain", "The Fire Escape" and "The Unicorn" are symbols in the " Glass Menagerie" Discuss Williams use of these symbols in the "Glass Menagerie". Mirroring, the social and economic despair of the thirties in the U.S, "The Glass Menagerie" in nostalgia for a past world and its evocation of l ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... by ‘gentleman callers'. Amanda is desperate to find her daughter, Laura, a husband, the kind of gentleman caller that she herself longed for, who wouldn't have deserted her. She foists her illusions on her unwilling children, living in the past with pretensions to glory. "In the South we had so many servants. Gone. All vestige of gracious living! I wasn't prepared for what the future brought me". p.64. The glass menagerie represents an escape from reality for Laura. Tennessee Williams has said ....