CHDV 21500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Tennessee Williams, Mazatlán, Southern Belle
27 May 2019
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The glass menagerie a and published in 1945. The considered by some critics to be his finest drama. , produced in 1944 launched williams"s career and is. Wingfield woman of great vitality clinging frantically to another time and place Her life is paranoia her foolishness makes her unwittingly cruel there is tenderness in her slight person : adult children, tom and laura. She fixates on her collection of glass figurines. She has failed to establish contact with reality a childhood illness has left her crippled, one leg slightly shorter than the other she is like a piece of her own glass collection, too exquisitely fragile . The poetic, frustrated son who works at a mindless. Tom warehouse job, supporting his family after his father left home for good. His nature is not remorseless to escape from a trap he has to act without pity. : the gentleman caller who has dinner with the wingfields.
