Family Dysfunction in Tennessee Williams' the Glass Menagerie

by Dedria Bryfonski

Book Overview

Tennessee Williams' 1944 play The Glass Menagerie centers around a family of three, Tom, Laura, and Amanda Wingfield, exploring what it means to share a household with people whose individual psychological eccentricities threaten to overwhelm the whole. Told retroactively in the format of a memory play, the protagonist, Tom, an aspiring poet by night and warehouse worker by night, introduces the audience to the conditions which led him to abandon...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0737763809
• ISBN13: 9780737763805
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 15 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 10 to 12