ASIAN-ST 396H Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Swing Music, Malvolio, Overcoat
25 Aug 2015
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Escape: tom- always going to the action-adventure movies, relentlessly smoking. He writes poetry in the warehouse: amanda- fabricating an idealized past, laura- preoccupying herself with a fictitious world of glass animals. Abandonment: mr. wingfield, a man who fell in love with long distances. his presence is felt. The large portrait that hangs in the living room. He pays his dues so that he can join the merchant marines instead of paying the lighting bill. Jim home and that in itself is betrayal: i"m like my father. And he"s been absent going on 16 years! . Family: they don"t eat dinner until everyone is at the table and tom has said grace. He says it twice in the play: tom"s job at the shoe factor supports the family, they live in a small and cramped place, getting by. They are all disappointed with their lives: they all love each other in different ways.
