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For my further study, I have studied the play text The Glass Menagerie. I have compressed a wide variety of sources (e.g. my own views, school guidance, online resources) to form this thorough set of full book annotations. I have given credit to the author as my annotations were written directly o...

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dim lights soft music
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☆ memory play
• Youth during Depression Era


how mother lost prestige
in overwhelming poverty and
leading children to
happiness




Themes

memory
.

nostalgia
-
filial piety ¥4B

duty
role

gender

guilt




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Your point
word by word quote / example from the extract copying)
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to the audience,
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images
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but it's
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simple

because the audience
paying .
on the screen


will also strengthen impression instead of vocal
merely .

, screens are more impressionable + innovative


µ



Music is added for
emotional emphasis .




'
The tune The
'
Glass menagerie

expressed the vivid

side of life wither
with the ever existent

and inexpressible
→ absent father
sorrow
→ worked for a telephone com
in love wi
eventually fell
"

and
"
his fa
distance
abandoning
,


-1 the dad
before the play 's action




-
→seH-ie
→ lives in the p
and always ta
Glass :
Beautiful , fragile
about the '
good
'

Laura / Williams 's
sister days when she

richer
to raise h

trying
children under gr
financial difficul
MUSIC connects → becomes almost hat
the broken time to children
stamps ←
→ dominant character
throughout the thefam
play .



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→ Amanda 's daught
Tom 's sister

→ she was sick wh

was young leavin
,

in reference
c- her with a limp
to nostalgia disabilities
( physical
and a
great →
mentally weak
sense of guilt , → inferiority complex
[ thinks she's worse th

others )
{ her i
→ lives in
used wisely refuses to accept
to portray → described as gl
different scenes
of
-

( beautiful , fragile
1- images → childhood traum
characters
Ttr
of the play
→ works at a shoe






/
school classmate
'
warehouse to supp
→ high
Laura
reality of Tom +
family but deep d
character 's ways of escape from
Laura 's crush
,
he is disgusted b




\
with Tom
• Amanda ( reminiscing her past) →
now working repetitive and low

the movies through the fire escape + smoking) significance of menial job he wa ,


Tom (escapes to

the setting be playwright /po
a



her glass menagerie ) \ / escapes by going
polishing

• Laura (
the cinema
nightly
,, um ,,a , , ,
g. . . .am , µ, mum , µ

for escape)
yearning family + financial

only only
=
man

breadwinner)

, ÷
family 's financial situation worsens
brief
+ background
+
:É_ getting of characters
lots of ppl moved to urban for jobs description
Campari lively poor neighbourhood
:
in
↑ apartment house a

getting / family background
-




residential areas an
crowded and unhysen.it
:

i.
→ i. family 's financial situation lead ' to
family conflicts

main points of 5c /
Nature of the filtered through his

play :
Tom warns the audience that the actions are perspective
stage effect /
lighting : dimness → to enhance the atmosphere of mood melancholy sentimental
memory ,
:
, ,
dreamy


settings of the play


stage effects


significant of fire escape
nature of memory


play


relationship between Tom
"" ᵈ AM "" " " Laura 's gla
Residential density

]
'




Amanda
living menagerie
how "

characters)
, impact on

in the past (halfway) / form -
apartment cage : a

tom 's dual role in
the play •




of imprisonment
L ) ideas of Symbol •
women and

significance of tenuity everyone yearns
for escape


µ
.




fire escape
I. literal escape
from the flat

2. Metaphoric /
figurative escape

from the

family
hPaH◦t_i slavery
,

3. stairs represent

{
the
the escape
frustration +

in the
rage
heart of
Tom -1 Williams ↓


his
flashbacks +
memories

all actions are
\ see in notes

µ
filtered through
his perspective (what
be
we seemight not
what happened
precisely
.




details are hazy)


( details are omitted / exaggerated → show emotional value )




suppression
stressful ,
,


dim ,
[
hopelessness

stage effects
dim
Lighting
-
-







↳ enhance

the atmosphere
of ' memory .





mood :




melancholy
↳ sentimental

dreamy social background
◦ there was war in Spain
◦ imminent to Europe

complaints about
labour in USA

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