Glass Menagerie

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apartment and nagging mother. Therefore the fire escape for him represents a path to the outside world where dreams are. For the gentleman caller Jim the fire escape provides the means through which Jim can enter the Wingfield's apartment an entrance to their lives. For Amanda, Tom's mom, the fire escape allows Jim to come into the apartment and prevent Laura from becoming a spinster. For Laura, Tom's sister is that it is her door to the inside world in where she can hide. It is ironic that when Laura does leave the security of her apartment she falls. This symbolizes Laura's inability to function properly in the outside world.
Another major symbol as the title is the , which represents Laura's hypersensitive nature and fragility. Laura is just as easily broken as a glass unicorn and just as unique. When Jim accidentally bumps into the unicorn and breaks it, the unicorn is no longer unique. As well like when Jim kisses Laura and then shatters her hopes by telling her that ...

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remembers his sister and hopes that he can blow 'her' candles out. Basically though the rainbows seemed to be positive signs but it all end in disappointment. As shown mostly through the narrator Tom, "maintains distance between himself and the pain of the situation through irony," and also explains, "For the artist, irony is a device that protects him from the pain of his experience so that he may use it objectively in his art."

The play itself focuses on the apartment life that Amanda, Laura, and Tom Wingfield share in the city and it is among many dark alleys with fire escapes. Tom and Laura do not like the dark atmosphere of their living conditions even though their mother tries ...

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