İNGİLİZ/AMERİKAN EDEBİYATI II

Tom has a dual role in the play. He is both the narrator and a character.

The Glass Menagerie was first performed on stage in Chicago in 1944.

The play is set in 1937.

Tom’s sister Laura is crippled who is extremely shy and introverted.

Laura reminds him the nickname he used to use for her: “blue roses”. When Jim asked her about what was wrong with her in the high school she said pleurosis but Jim misunderstood it as “blue roses”.

Laura is constantly dealing with her tiny glass ornaments and playing old phonograph records.

Amanda accuses Tom of not being interested in the family since Tom is always going out saying that he is going to the movies.

Laura confesses that she feels ill at the business school and she believes she cannot succeed there. Instead of going to school she spends every day walking in open air.

Jim suddenly kisses Laura, but he instantly draws back and says he is engaged
to another girl. He apologizes to Laura and Laura gives the broken unicorn to him as a souvenir.

From this perspective, accompanied with the atmosphere of the apartment and the social atmosphere, the play has a tragic and a bleak tone.