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Summary: A class project worth doing
Review: We got the glass menagerie assigned as a reading assignment in english class, and as with all projects i dreaded reading it. But once I started I discovered that this play is interesting, the plot is pretty simple, and the characters are fun to read about. I highly suggest this book to anyone. Once you learn to ignore the cues for music and lighting, it becomes enjoyable.
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Summary: Did I Miss Something?
Review: I recently read this play, then went through a week of analyzing it, and frankly, I didn't think it was anything special. Although it had its moments, I don't understand what propelled this play to the status it currently holds. It seems to be revered as one of the greatest American plays. I can't see anything that really sets it apart from the rest of its peers. With that said, it wasn't activly bad. Please don't misunderstand me, there was nothing truly odious about it, I just didn't think there was anything especially great about it. Thus it rests at 3 stars for me, right in the middle.
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Summary: great book
Review: this was a wonderfully written book that i recomend to anyone
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Summary: this was my introduction to Williams
Review: This play was great, dispite what anyone says... I had to read it for class my Senior year... to be frank, I couldn't put it down and ended up speed reading the whole play in one night... I love his use of symbolism and bleak display to shed hope, light and happiness on the dull life of one girl that is so far out of touch with reality... it shows that what makes people happy isn't always prestege, wealth, or fame... but the small simple things in life... I loved it so much I read " A Street Car named Desire" and "A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" to which I loved just as much as this book. I must say it makes Tennessee Williams one of my personal favoriates.
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Summary: just my opinion, i could be wrong...
Review: This play abolishes all precepts of modern play writing before it. It is one of the best uses of symbolism of the 20th century. On the surface level, it tells not only the story of a girl, but more importantly, it tells how sometimes we may see ourselves as what we are not and this may hold us back from true happiness. Another, more thouroughly important theme is that of being able, or sometimes unable, to move on from things in life. Life is what you make of it, be it good or bad.
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Summary: PRETTY GOOD
Review: After having read this book , I can honestly say that this is oneof those 2-hour reads. Its a short play about life in the 1940s. About a disfunctional, somewhat 'humorous' family. I would defineatly reccomend this book to anyone who likes a good short, read.
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Summary: A confused and sheltered life.
Review: .... I read this book and examined it in detail for my A level English course.. and we found many tie ins with Tennessee Williams' real life and mentality. The character of Jim seems to be the misguided efforts of people around TW trying to help Amanda (his mother?) to realise a dream for his sister and free himself (the character of Tom). Sadly, it all backfires as they live in a triangle of hurt, each one inadvertantly hurting each other until one comes to the end of his mind and deserts a sinking ship, like the father did 16 yrs previous. It is a good book centred upon the American Dream of the 30's and many people's failure to realise this dream.
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Summary: Great Literature
Review: What makes for great art is the embodiment of the universal within the particular. The characters in the play are clearly drawn and yet represent our own conflicting desires and aspirations. I sympathized with them all even as I recognized their faults. This play is about the characters and not about plot. The end of the play follows tragically and invevitably from the characters. The play is surprisingly contemporary in the issues it raises. It made me yearn and ache and feel awful and wonderful all at the same time.
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Summary: I read this book in class...
Review: I read this play in class last week. It started out as a slow, boring novel, but turned into a fast paced story about a normal mid 1900's family. I enjoyed reading many of the parts with extraordinary enthusiasm. This must be a great play which would take masters of theatre to put on. Thank you. The only problem I had with the book was that some of the scenes were very boring! Mama would sometimes talk for whole scenes about nothing but selfishness! If I really wanted to read about selfishness, I would have read a book on the topic. But all in all it was a good novel.
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Summary: not an extraordinary play
Review: The glass menagerie is a play that starts out with an interesting beginning. It was exciting to start reading a new book, a new story that may open a new horrizen to me. Who knows? Pretty soon, I soon got bored, was not that curious about what was going to happen. Laura will always be the shy girl, the girl, that has no self-esteem, no self-confidence. Laura is different, sure. Her thoughts always turn around her glass menagerie, the collection of little glass figureens. Amanda (Laura's mother) is the one that has the total control of laura. only that fact makes her to a kind of tyrann. she constantely talks about her youth, about how beautiful she was, tells again and again how many gentlemen-callers she had. by the time you read to the middle of the book, you are bored by that lady. Tom (Laura's brother) on the other hand is an interesting character. hH is just trying to figure out what he actually want, what he and others stand for. It is amazing to see his change from the beginning of the play to the end. All in all I would say, it is not a extraordinary book. there are others that are more entertaining than this one.
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