Essay on Dreams and Escape in The Glass Menagerie -- Glass Menagerie e

Dreams and Escape in The Glass Menagerie   â â The fantasy of break is the point of convergence in the play, The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams. Albeit each character needs to escape from an alternate reality, they all vibe the need to escape. The dad is the best in his break - he leaves the family and doesn't think back. Laura, Amanda, Tom, and Jim, are not as lucky, they appear to be stuck all through the play. Jim is by all accounts the just one with a genuine possibility at splitting ceaselessly from his world. Tom appears to breaks free, yet we find that his departure endeavor falls flat since he can't overlook Laura.  All through the play, every individual escapes their existence somehow or another and is to some degree effective at it. Regardless of whether through dreams or really leaving, everybody figures out how to break free. Tom is, by a wide margin, the greatest visionary. Tom fantasies about leaving the ...over swarmed urban focuses of lower white collar class populace (Williams 1267). Tom begrudges his dad who really had the guts to exit. Tom communicates this when he tells Amanda, ...Mother, I'd be the place [the father] is! (Williams 1277). Tom needs to leave so urgently that he ...paid [his Merchant Marine] duty this month, rather than the light bill (Williams 1295). Tom would prefer to consider himself and let his mom and sister sit in obscurity, alone, than assume liability for his family. Tom says he is ...tired of the motion pictures (Williams 1294) implying that he is prepared for his own experiences. He ...[retires] to a bureau of the washroom to take a shot at sonnets when busi ness [is] slack in the stockroom (Williams 1289) By doing this, Tom is searching for one more getaway from the truth of working at an occupation he despises.  Tom likewise severely dislikes his mom in a few... ...en get an opportunity are the individuals least associated with the Wingfield family. Much the same as the glass unicorn, this family is straightforward, desolate and broken. They never prevail with regards to anything aside from dreaming for a superior reality that will never come.  Works Cited and Consulted Sprout, Harold. Presentation. Tennessee Williams. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 1987. 1-8. Ruler, Thomas L. Incongruity and Distance in The Glass Menagerie. In Tennessee Williams. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 1987. 85-94. Toll, Eric P. 'Through Soundproof Glass': The Prison of Self Consciousness in The Glass Menagerie. Modern Drama, 36. December 1993. 529-537. Williams, Tennessee. The Glass Menagerie. In Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing, fourth ed. Ed. Edgar V. Roberts and Henry E. Jacobs. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995. 1519-1568.