The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams full book annotations
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Course
English
Institution
GCSE
Book
The Glass Menagerie
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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complex emotions
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a more vivid and
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describe it as
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because the audience
paying .
on the screen
will also strengthen impression instead of vocal
merely .
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emotional emphasis .
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The tune The
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Glass menagerie
expressed the vivid
side of life wither
with the ever existent
and inexpressible
→ absent father
sorrow
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in love wi
eventually fell
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and
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his fa
distance
abandoning
,
-1 the dad
before the play 's action
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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 )
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→ lives in
used wisely refuses to accept
to portray → described as gl
different scenes
of
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( beautiful , fragile
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characters
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→ works at a shoe
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school classmate
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warehouse to supp
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Laura
reality of Tom +
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character 's ways of escape from
Laura 's crush
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now working repetitive and low
the movies through the fire escape + smoking) significance of menial job he wa ,
Tom (escapes to
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the setting be playwright /po
a
her glass menagerie ) \ / escapes by going
polishing
→
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the cinema
nightly
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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
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Residential density
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Amanda
living menagerie
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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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