Futile Dreams of Escape in the Glass Menagerie that almost all of us have some sort of flaw, anyway, and I guess I found it easier to relate to characters who border on hysteria, who are afraid of life, who are desperate to reach out to another person” (Rasky 134). This statement by Tennessee Williams supports the idea that he incorporates something crippling in all of his major characters. In his play The Glass Menagerie, Williams depicts a crippling mother-child relationship. It clearly illustrates that none of the characters are capable of living in the present. The characters believe that happiness will be found in their repeated quests to escape from the real world. As such, they retreat to their separate worlds. escape the brutalities of life. Set in Depression-era St. Louis, ex-Southern authoritarian charmer Amanda Wingfield is the de facto head of the household. A former Southern belle, Amanda is a single mother who acts like she's still the high school beauty queen. Williams' ever-relevant study reveals his desperate struggle against the forces of fate against his looming and developing dysfunctional relationship among his adult children. (Gist) Laura, Amanda, Tom and Jim resort to various escape mechanisms to avoid reality. Laura, fearful of being denigrated as inferior due to her innate inability to walk, is shy and detaches herself from the callous modern world. Amanda tries everything she can to integrate him into society, but in vain. She sends him to business school and invites a gentleman to dinner. She is both unable to cope with the mechanization of the contemporary world represented by the typing speed test and incapable of making new acquaintances or friends due to her immense inhibition around people. His life is monotonous and uneventful, but it is full of dreams and flooded with memories. Whenever the outside world threatens Laura, she seeks comfort and retreats into her animal world of glass and old phonograph records. Amanda, her mother, alludes to the alternative of marriage to the fiasco of a business career and Laura "gives a surprised and doubtful laugh. She quickly grabs a piece of glass". (Williams, ). The glass menagerie becomes his tactile consolation. The small glass ornaments represent Laura and characterize her fragility and delicate beauty..

Essay / Futile Dreams of Escape in the Glass Menagerie that almost all of us have some sort of flaw, anyway, and I guess I found it easier to relate to characters who border on hysteria, who are afraid of life, who are desperate to reach out to another person” (Rasky 134). This statement by Tennessee Williams supports the idea that he incorporates something crippling in all of his major characters. In his play The Glass Menagerie, Williams depicts a crippling mother-child relationship. It clearly illustrates that none of the characters are capable of living in the present. The characters believe that happiness will be found in their repeated quests to escape from the real world. As such, they retreat to their separate worlds. escape the brutalities of life. Set in Depression-era St. Louis, ex-Southern authoritarian charmer Amanda Wingfield is the de facto head of the household. A former Southern belle, Amanda is a single mother who acts like she's still the high school beauty queen. Williams' ever-relevant study reveals his desperate struggle against the forces of fate against his looming and developing dysfunctional relationship among his adult children. (Gist) Laura, Amanda, Tom and Jim resort to various escape mechanisms to avoid reality. Laura, fearful of being denigrated as inferior due to her innate inability to walk, is shy and detaches herself from the callous modern world. Amanda tries everything she can to integrate him into society, but in vain. She sends him to business school and invites a gentleman to dinner. She is both unable to cope with the mechanization of the contemporary world represented by the typing speed test and incapable of making new acquaintances or friends due to her immense inhibition around people. His life is monotonous and uneventful, but it is full of dreams and flooded with memories. Whenever the outside world threatens Laura, she seeks comfort and retreats into her animal world of glass and old phonograph records. Amanda, her mother, alludes to the alternative of marriage to the fiasco of a business career and Laura "gives a surprised and doubtful laugh. She quickly grabs a piece of glass". (Williams, ). The glass menagerie becomes his tactile consolation. The small glass ornaments represent Laura and characterize her fragility and delicate beauty..

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