The Film of the Book: Several adaptations of varying quality.

Wingfield, is paranoid about her children's lives, spends most of her time living in the past and is extremely controlling, leading to clashes with the independently-minded Tom who is also resentful of his father's departure, forcing him to work an awful job to support the family, whereas Laura's anxiety isn't being made any better by the constant conflict nor Amanda's repeated, foolhardy attempts to model her daughter after herself.

Dysfunction Junction: The Wingfields have something approaching the complete opposite of a healthy family dynamic.

Downer Ending: Not only is Jim already engaged, Tom finally decides he has had it and abandons his family.

This is all done to obfuscate the real reason he keeps going out. After Amanda questions Tom about what's actually happening when he's ' going to the movies' every night, he goes on a long angry rant about his (fictitious) double life as crime boss 'Killer' Wingfield, who lives this trope to the full.

Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!: Parodied/ Discussed.

Brother–Sister Incest: The subtext was definitely there between Tom and Laura in the movie remake, although very nonexistent in the original play, where Laura essentially served as Tom's Morality Chain instead, via Big Brother Instinct.

After Tom's first speech, the literal fourth wall of the apartment lifts.The play opens with Tom explaining to the audience that the play is based on his memories.Which leaves everyone much worse off and miserable in the long run, with Laura and Amanda's fate unknown but likely decidedly unpleasant given they won't have enough money to support themselves, and Tom wracked with guilt for the rest of his life. Anti-Escapism Aesop: Tom's desire for adventure causes him to abandon his family.Williams based the Wingfields on his own family he himself was the basis for Tom, his mother Edwina for Amanda, and his sister Rose (who was diagnosed with schizophrenia in real life, and had undergone a lobotomy a year before the play's debut) for Laura. Amanda obsesses over finding a suitor for Laura, who's so painfully shy that she locks herself up in her room and admires the eponymous collection of glass animal figurines she keeps. While Tom works in a shoe warehouse to support the family, he dreams of leaving home and frequently goes out to the movies as an escape.

Louis, Missouri during the 1930s, the play centers around the Wingfields ( Amanda, Tom, and Laura), whose relationship has become strained since Mr. His first major work, it is an important part of the American theatrical repertoire and continues to be performed successfully by both professional and amateur companies.

The Glass Menagerie is a 1944 play by Tennessee Williams.

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