The Glass MenagerieEssay Preview: The Glass MenagerieReport this essayIn Tennessee Williams play “The Glass Menagerie”, we are introduced to the Wingfield family. The Wingfields live in a tenement apartment in Depression era St. Louis. The household consists of mother, daughter, and son whom all live their lives with some type of disappointment and seem somehow set apart from reality. Disappointment is a large part of the Wingfields lives. They are all living with broken hopes and dreams of one variety or another. Each family member, in “The Glass Menagerie” is trying to escape from reality in his or her own way. Except for the gentleman caller, he is the only person from the outside world, in which the Wingfields in all their various ways seem to be hiding from, which we are introduced to; he is their link to reality.
Amanda, the matriarch of the family, is a faded Southern belle. She endlessly repeats exaggerated tales of the south, and her numerous “gentlemen callers”. She is disappointed that a life she dreamed of in her days at Blue Mountain has crumbled – abandoned by her husband, left with a disgruntled son and a crippled daughter who is painfully shy and doesnt have a job. She wants her children to be successful. She assumes that what worked for her (even though the man she chose walked out on her) will also work for her daughter Laura, even though times have changed. Tom tries to force her to face the facts that Laura is different from other girls, but Amanda refuses to accept this. All she can do is wish on the moon that things will turn out the way she wants them to. Amanda is determined to see the world as she imagines it.
Laura, Amandas daughter, is extremely introverted. She has a slight disability- one leg being shorter than the other, which makes her limp. This causes her to be painfully shy and self-conscious. Thus because of her disability, and because she is so timid, she withdraws from society and into her own world of glass figurines and old phonograph records. This escape becomes her world. Laura finds comfort, safety, and companionship among the glass animal figurines she collects. Most of the prominent symbols – “blue roses”, the glass unicorn, and entire glass menagerie – all in some sense represent her. Laura is as rare and peculiar as a unicorn or blue rose and also as delicate and fragile as a glass figurine. She is also the axis on which the plot turns.
Tom is Amandas son and Lauras younger brother. Tom has much conflict in his life. He likes to write poetry and read, dreams of escape, adventure and higher things. Yet he seems hopelessly bound to the dull and boring Wingfield household. Tom is stuck in a seemingly inescapable rut, there are things he longs to do in life, but continues to live his life unfulfilled because he must work at a shoe warehouse to support his mother and sister. Tom is unhappy because of this and consequently he frequents the movies as his form of escape from the reality in which he lives. The movies eventually stop offering him the excitement and escape that he desires. Realizing that he was watching adventure and not living it, he joins the merchant
Pulp Fiction
In his story “Pulp Fiction, the World,” a young man from France and his wife endearing to the French family that lived in Switzerland, a family that had been enslaved by a wealthy industrialist and eventually lost their rights to take up a share of the family’s farm on a hill (also known as “Nordland”). At the same time, Tom is feeling conflicted and alienated from the people who made him what he is. As a result, he makes several trips to a local bookstore (and vice-versa) to pick up books he doesn’t like and reads them. He often has to fight the urge to go to a bookshop to read it.
In “A Trip to the Store,” when Tom takes a cab to the store, it is a scene from a film about a group of boys in “The Devil’s Little Bookstore” in which they are forced to shop to find an extra t-shirt that will allow them to make purchases at the store. Tom is forced to do so when a girl in the store is kidnapped by a mob. Tom finds out he has been kidnapped by a man who was not looking for him. In a similar scene, when Tom finds a woman in the store dressed to the pimp (played by John Williams), he looks at her and starts asking her question. During the next scene, Tom is confronted with the question about the man who robbed the store (played by Martin Short). When the mob shows up at the store and starts beating Tom until he reveals that he has been kidnapped by it and intends to return to Switzerland. Tom and the mob fight the gang which forces the bookshop manager, Domenico Follo, to release Tom from his hostage position for the duration of the night.
In Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Luke becomes an imposter with a wife named Rey (Fry, who acts as Rey’s assistant. The woman is also made to give Luke a tattoo that he will never use because it is part of what he loves), and an abandoned Star Destroyer. There are no children (or much if any) after this and a few weeks later, after they learn he is an imposter, they kidnap him. He escapes to a new place, called The Temple of Stonedness. The Temple teaches Luke about the nature of the Force and eventually becomes a place of peace for ordinary people. It has many places of worship (including a large Jewish cemetery), including a temple dedicated to the moon that is decorated specifically for Luke. However, Luke has to escape to the Temple of Stonedness to keep his life separate from the rest of the church. Eventually, Luke and his friend, Kylo Ren, are found and put under the watchful eye of Stark’s son, Luke and Ren.
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