Name: Reem Zamgan ID: 43165
Title: The Glass Menagerie Performance Attended: Wednesday
Director: Catherine Moran Playwright: Tennessee Williams
Name of Actors: Tom, Laura, Jim, and Amanda. List actors:

The Glass Menagerie is a play that is a result of a memory from the narrator, Tom. It revolves around Tom, the older brother and the mother Amanda and the sister Laura. Tom supports the family because his father has left and the mother Amanda is so persistent on getting her daughter married. Laura is enrolled in a business school, however, the mother later discovers that Laura dropped out of the business school. The mother asks Tom to find Laura a suitor. Then Tom decides to bring his friend over to see Laura, however, Laura later finds out that the man coming was her childhood crush. Laura feels sick when her crush comes over and does not have dinner with them. Then Jim, the caller, goes to talk to Laura and they engage in a conversation until he decides to kiss her and after kissing her, he confesses that he is already has a serious girlfriend.
Glass menageries are Glass animals and they basically symbolize Laura, who is fragile and odd. The play is narrated by one of the characters and it is a four-character play. The narration helps a lot in portraying the story. A lesson this play might have been aimed to teach is that being very persistent about something happening might end up backfiring at you. Another lesson could be that one should not be very keen on her kids doing things and mothers should give their children some space or else they will end up running away or lying to you. The theme of this play is drama. The major conflicts in the play are Toms fear of his job and Amanda’s disappointment at her failure in life because her husband has left