Compare and Contrast of Characters In life when comparing things they either have something in common or not. I'm comparing both the similarities and differences between the characters Walter Lee Younger from “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry and Tom Wingfield from “Glass Menagerie” written by Tennessee Williams. Although these characters personalities are different, they do have many things in common such as they both have their own dreams or wants in life. Each character also as well has
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escape reality. The play is set in an apartment in St. Louis in 1937. Tom Wingfield serves as the narrator as well as a character in the play. Tom is determined and hard working man who works in the Continental Shoemaker’s factory. Tom lives with his Southern mother, Amanda, who is proud and confident woman and his shy and crippled sister, Laura. Another character is Jim O’Conner who is a friend of tom from the factory who tom invites to dinner and Laura’s first gentleman caller. The main action
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narrator turned hero named Tom. Tom works at a shoe warehouse and writes poetry in his free time; while also taking on the responsibilities of his family after his father left. The mother Amanda lives in her memories of gentleman callers and parties, while avoiding the reality of her crippled daughter Laura who is in a dream world of little glass animals. Her mother seeing no future for her, she gets Tom to find a bachelor for Laura and invite him to dinner. Instead Tom brings home Jim his employee
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same emotions. In the play, The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams, the Wingfield family has been left broken from the effects of abandonment but continue to fill their roles as a typical family. As a unit, it is easily seen that the Wingfield family has their issues. At the start of the play, the reader is introduced to each character, and their flaws and broken
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reality. None of the characters in Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie are fit for living in reality. Laura, Amanda, Tom, and Jim use different techniques to get away from the relentlessness of life. Laura retreats to a universe of glass animals, Amanda utilizes Laura as a tool to live in her past, Tom gets away from the world by putting his time into composing poems and watching adventurous movies, and Jim thinks back to his high school school profession. Mr. Wingfield is hinted frequently
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The Glass Menagrie is about a Brother Tom wingfield and his sister Laura Wingfield and there mother Amanda Wingfield. There father abandoned then when they where little. Laura is socially awkward she’s been telling her mother for the past 6 months that she’s going to school but the first day she went and she had to se sent to the nurses office because she was so scared. So she tells her mom she’s go but she really just goes for walks in the park. Tom works at a warehouse he’s the narrator of the
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Breaking the Victimizing Bonds Despite being portrayed as the villain of his mother’s unknown fate, Tom Wingfield in “The Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams is a victim held in the life pillaging bonds of his father’s mistakes and the suffocating pressure of his mother Amanda. Thrashing to break free of his bonds, Tom brings about harm and resentment to his family as he abandons his home responsibilities to fulfill the responsibilities he has set for himself. As a victim in his own life Tom’s
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he Glass Menagerie is a very character oriented poem. Tom, Amanda, and Laura are all very well developed characters. They all have significant and unique characteristics that are shown well throughout the poem. Tom is the most interesting to me though because of his qualities and even his flaws. Tom has a few different and contradicting characteristics such as he is easily persuaded, his determination and his strong sense of guilt. Tom Wingfield seems to be easily entrapped and persuaded into
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| |Title of the work |Significance of Title | |The Tragedy of Hamlet, |These plays were more over a small “history” of the main character and for this reason Shakespeare named all of | |Prince of Denmark |his great tragedies after his protagonist. | |
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the characters’ illusionary worlds. Williams’s description of the Wingfield’s apartment as a vast “hive-like conglomeration” of cellular living-units establishes a prison-like feel, compelling audiences to consider whether American lower-middle-class populations only function as one inter-fused mass of automatism. Moreover, the Wingfield’s confinement, highlighted through stage directions, is emphasised through the symbolic fire-escape which demonstrates the elusive prospect of the characters escape
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