The Glass Menagerie is Tennessee Williams’s poignant “memory play,” offering a haunting portrait of a family bound by longing, illusion, and quiet desperation. In a small St. Louis apartment of the 1930s, Amanda Wingfield—once a Southern belle—clings to fading memories while urging her delicate daughter, Laura, toward a future she is too fragile to face. Tom, Amanda’s restless son and the narrator of the play, longs to escape his stifling job and the confines of home, yet is weighed down by obligation and guilt. Through Tom’s recollections, the drama unfolds as a delicate balance between hope and disappointment, reality and illusion. Laura’s cherished glass figurines reflect the emotional vulnerability of the Wingfields themselves, making this timeless work a tender and deeply human exploration of dreams that are both cherished and impossible.
Technical Details:
Pages: 115
Publication Year: 1970 (New Directions edition)
Publisher: New Directions
Language: English
Original Language: English
