Term Papers on Tennessee Williams’ Glass Menagerie: The Glass Prison

Term Paper Title	Tennessee Williams’ Glass Menagerie: The Glass Prison
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Tennessee Williams’ Glass Menagerie:  The Glass Prison

            Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie is a play told from the haunted perspective of a man about his sister, but the comment made is uniquely feminine.  The emotional prison that Tom blames his sister for his entrapment is much less powerful than the web that entangles Laura.

            Laura is forced into a world, not only by society, but by her own mother’s perception of it, that calibrates the worth of women based on their beauty, their charm, and their savoire-faire.  It is a world that Laura will never excel in, due to her defect, yet her mother refuses to acknowledge that, imprisoning Laura in her own derailed dreams rather than letter her pursue avenues that would validate her existence.

            In the second scene, Laura proclaims aloud that she’s crippled.  In response, her mother forbids her to use “the word,” describing it as a “little defect.”  Though her mother’s ideals are undeniably feminine, they’re far from feminist.  She even goes so far as to imply that beauty is the only strategy a woman has to successfully rope a man wit...

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