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“Seeing The Glass Menagerie was like stumbling on a flower in a junkyard—Williams had pushed language and character to the front of the stage as never before.” (Arthur Miller)

“Delicate and perceptive, The Glass Menagerie inhabits a half-world between comedy and tragedy.” (The New York Times)

About the Author

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) is the acclaimed author of many books of letters, short stories, poems, essays, and a large collection of plays, including The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Camino Real, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Orpheus Descending, The Night of the Iguana, and The Rose Tattoo.

Tony Kushner is the author of over two dozen plays, including Angels in America, for which he received the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize for the best play of 1993.

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Paperback: 160 pagesPublisher: New Directions; Third Edition edition (April 5, 2011)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0811218945ISBN-13: 978-0811218948 Product Dimensions: 5.9 x 0.6 x 9.8 inches Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces Best Sellers Rank: #6,487,465 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #11357 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Dramas & Plays > Regional & Cultural > United States #12025 in Books > Textbooks > Humanities > Literature > American Literature #287473 in Books > Literature & Fiction > United States
In this, his first hit play, Tennessee Williams draws on many aspects of his own life–his alcoholic traveling shoe salesman and often absent father, his Southern belle mother (a recurring character in Williams’s work), his mentally ill sister Rose (who received a lobotomy), and his own difficulties with not fitting in–to create a compelling and complex psychological drama of people trapped in an illusory world. In the end, one attempts to escape, as Williams himself did, only to acknowledge that escaping from memories is impossible.

Tom Wingfield narrates the story of his family, focusing on his last days he is with them. Deserted by the father, whose picture hangs prominently on the wall, Tom must work in a shoe factory to support his mother Amanda and sister Laura. His role makes him resentful and angry. He dreams of and threatens to leave to pursue his own interests, writing.

Amanda lives in the past, regaling family and audience with stories of her upbringing and her beaus. Abandoned once, she fears Tom will walk out on Laura and her.

Laura suffers from crippling shyness, more debilitating than her physical limp.

At the urging of Amanda, Tom agrees to bring a "gentleman caller" home for Laura, who is reclusive, withdrawn into her own world populated by her glass figurines. Jim O’Connor accompanies Tom home one night, a night for which Amanda pulls out all the stops and spares no expense, though their resources are limited.

After a rocky start, Jim, with his big aspirational personality (though he, too, is a character wounded by life), puts Laura at ease to the point where possibilities seem to glimmer in her future. She admits to having had a crush on him in high school, where he was quite a big deal.

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