Essay on the Use of Symbols, Tensions, and Irony in The Glass Menagerie

Utilization of Symbols, Tensions, and Irony in The Glass Menagerie   â â The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams, is an ideal case of how Williams consolidates images, pressures, and incongruity to help express the focal subject of the play.   â â One of the most predominant images in the play is the fire escape.â It speaks to something else for each of the characters.â Tom utilizes the emergency exit to escape from his confined condo and annoying mother.â Therefore, the emergency exit represents a way to the outside world.â For Jim, the respectable man guest, the emergency exit speaks to a methods for entering the Wingfield loft and thusly, entering the Wingfields' lives.â The mother, Amanda, sees the emergency exit as a potential passageway for Jim into the condo and as a response to the dread she has of her little girl turning into a spinster.â Lastly, for Laura, the emergency exit speaks to a spot she can go to avoid this present reality.   â â The glass zoological garden itself is another symbol.â It speaks to how delicate, touchy, and extraordinary Laura is.â Laura's prize piece is the unicorn, which Jim finds and brakes.â After the unicorn is broken, it is no longer unique.â Just as after Jim kisses Laura and advises her of his commitment to be hitched, she becomes both heart-broken and somewhat less unique.â around there, Jim speaks to the outside world.â When the unicorn and Laura are presented to Jim (or the outside world) they break.â By Laura giving Jim the messed up unicorn, she is likewise giving him her wrecked heart to take with him. She gives him the messed up unicorn since it is not, at this point interesting, and to her nor is Jim. In like manner, when Jim leaves, he will likewise abandon a tad bit of himself in Laura's messed up heart.   â â ... ...ls Laura that he's engaged.â This affirms Laura will be not able to satisfy her fantasy.   â â It gives the idea that each time a character thinks the person in question is pushing ahead, the individual has the truth of moving backwards.â The characters never quit any pretense of endeavoring, yet at the same time nobody can push ahead from the Wingfields' world.â Not even Tom can get away, and he has just left.  The Glass Menagerie is in fact an ideal case of how Williams fuses images, pressures, and incongruity to help express the focal topic of the play.  Works Cited and Consulted: Kahn, Sy. Current American Drama: Essays in Criticism. Altered by Willima E. Taylor. Deland, Florida. Everette/Edwards Inc., 1968. 71-88 Williams, Tennessee. The Glass Menagerie. The Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Writing, Thinking. fifth ed. Ed. Michael Meyer. Boston: Bedford, 1999.