What are some literacy elements used in The Glass Menagerie?
The Glass Menagerie is a play by Tennessee Williams. The Glass Menagerie is accounted by many to be an autobiographical play about Williams’s life, the characters and story mimicking his own more closely than any of his other works. Williams (whose real name is Thomas) would be Tom, his Mother, Amanda, and his sickly and (supposedly) mentally ill sister Rose would be Laura (whose nickname in the play is “Blue Roses”, a result of an unfortunate bout of Pleurosis as a high school student). It has been suggested as well that the character of Laura is based upon Williams himself, referencing his introvert nature and obsessive focus on one part of life (writing for Williams and glass animals in Laura’s case. http://www.bookrags.com/The_Glass_Menage… http://www.bookrags.com/notes/gm/ http://ww
