The Glass Menagerie

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Summary: Intriguing and interesting
Review: The Glass Menagerie is a marvelous play. It brings together different styles, characters, and symbols in one all inclusive package. This "memory play" uses illusion to depict the raw pain of past occurances. Williams created a play that is to be treasured by all audiences as an American classic!

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Summary: Williams once again reaches inside your soul
Review: With descriptive, vibrant characters, Williams pens the most prolific work in the history of classic American drama. He makes you experience the emotions every character in such a way that you can completely comprehend and sympathize with their reasonings and their frame of mind. The contents of this book cannot be conformed to the limits of the English language.

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Summary: Ick
Review: I found this play rather dull. While Williams' use of symbolism to relate dreams is interesting, the rest of the work is not. Blaah

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Summary: Well written, but lacked redeeming theme
Review: Readers who are looking for a fairytale, happy ending, will not find one here. It was depressing, yet the skill with which William's crafted the story demands admiration from its readers.

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Summary: Heartbreaking
Review: Tennessee Williams' best play, it is a story of four people who are alone and sad, so cold you want to reach out and comfort them, each living in their own worlds but unable to touch each other. I particularly cared for Laura, who is clearly the most tragic of all the characters. I was near tears during the final moments of the play when she shows her glass unicorn to Tom, and even more touched when she chooses to give it up...the thought of a helpless girl alone in a world of glass figures is simply heartbreaking. "The Glass Menagerie" is simply a masterpiece, better than any of Williams' other plays because it depends more on human emotions than the others do.

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Summary: Shines
Review: Possibly Williams' finest play, The Glass Menagerie has all the emotion and power of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof or Streetcar Named Desire without the violence. Sadly sweet, this play is more concerned with nostalgia and the unraveling of dreams than lies and violation. It retains its poignancy throughout the three acts and evokes powerful characters and themes.

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Summary: this play is ultimately Williams' crowning achievement
Review: This play is, in my opinion the best of all of Williams' many prolific works. All of Tennessee's plays evoke a strong sense of emotion, and all reach deep within to the very heart, mind and soul of the reader to envoke passionate response and sympathy for the characters and situations .All show deep understanding of human nature,and through his brilliant writing technique, the characters spring forth into life and we cannot help but to love, hate and sympathize/empathize with them. In his characters, we all see someone we know,and often, that someone is a part of ourselves. However there is no work that exemplifies this better than The Glass Menagerie. The characters is this play are amazing and overwhelmingly tragic and complex,and the issues so relevant,even today,that we all find ourselves relating and sympathizing with one or more of the characters. The imagery is amazing,and the story heart wrenching. I found myself near tears on numerous occasions,moved so easily by the Plight of the tragic heroes of this play, Tom and Laura, and Amanda. The relationships between these characters is truly one of the best and most realistic of any literary work that I have read. Their tragic lives are described in an intreguing and gut wrenching manner, and you find yourself suddenly drawn into their sad, twisted lives,unable to escape,and wanting only to shout out and offer support to these tragic figures,whose lives are spiraling forever downwards into inescapable turmoil and despair. You often find yourself unable to put the book down,yet at the same time not wanting to read further,so as not to get to the next tragic scene. I recommend this book to anyone and everyone. It is simply too amazing to describe. READ IT!!

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Summary: Work of Art
Review: This is the work of art. William. T has used a variety of symbols representing this play. This is a high rated book, because of the great uses of symbols and facts in reality. You must see and study the play, to figure out the symbols representing different facts in this artistic play.

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Summary: In-depth work full of thought and precision
Review: The Glass Menagerie is a very well-written play that portrays a family that all lacks. Tom lacks the ability to prosper because of his childish attitudes. Laura lacks the ability to live because she refuses to come out from her shell created by her physical deformity. The mother lacks a life of her own that pleases her and therefore tries, in vain, to live a new, wonderful life through her children. Every movement and object in this play represents some deeper thought. Williams includes many motifs that make The Glass Menagerie one of the best plays that I have ever read

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Summary: I love this story very much.
Review: I love Tennessee's plays, but I think that this is the best play of his. It's so impressive, sentimental, so sad, which reminds me of something I have forgotten. In this play, Tom is described as a sort of selfish person and outsider, but I feel deep love for his family, Amanda, and Laura. If you haven't read it yet, you should read it right now!