A guide to reading "The Glass Menagerie" and "A Streetcar Named Desire" with a critical and appreciative mind encouraging analysis of plot, style, form, and structure. Also includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list.
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I don't agree with those Amazon readers who wrote reviews that 'The Glass Menagerie'is bad. I object! It's like saying Beethoven is a drag; or that Picasso is in need of glasses. What such readers essentially mean is that it's not to their taste. Because they don't like it, it just can't possibly be good. I think if they could manage to drag themselves away from 'Desperate Housewives', for a moment, they'd be able to learn that sensitive and intelligent writing about women is possible, as Tennessee Williams' great masterpiece 'A streetcar Named Desire', 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof', and 'The Glass Menagerie' reveal so well. George Ehrenhaft's a good place to sample what Streetcar & Glass Menagerie are all about; or why I'm making such a fuss about them.
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One of the classics of our time. Perhaps the most thought provoking play I have ever encountered.
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The Glass Menagerie,
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So many people want to dislike this play because it is so well known. Colleges and High Schools are known to always to do this play. But it is a sensitive piece of work and is a great piece to preform. Laura's character is so self- conscious and fragile in contrast to her boasterous and out going ex-southern belle mother. This is also interesting because it is actually based upon Tennesse William's family situation. The Charracters are well developed, interesting and natural dialogue and the plot is very interesting.
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The Glass Menagerie was Tennessee Williams' first successful play. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
glass animals, glass menagerie Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Belle Reve, Elysian Fields, Jim O'Connor, New Orleans, Tennessee Williams, Shep Huntleigh, Streetcar Named Desire, Scene One, Scene Two, Scene Three, Blue Mountain, Paradise Dance Hall, Scene Five, Scene Four, World War, New York, Old South, Stanley Kowalski, Does Amanda, Does Laura, While Blanche New!
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The Glass Menagerie was Tennessee Williams' first successful play. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
glass animals, glass menagerie Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Belle Reve, Elysian Fields, Jim O'Connor, New Orleans, Tennessee Williams, Shep Huntleigh, Streetcar Named Desire, Scene One, Scene Two, Scene Three, Blue Mountain, Paradise Dance Hall, Scene Five, Scene Four, World War, New York, Old South, Stanley Kowalski, Does Amanda, Does Laura, While Blanche New!
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- The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams on 16 pages
- A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams on 11 pages
- A Streetcar Named Desire (New Directions Paperbook) by Tennessee Williams on page 1, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Glass Menagerie: A Collection of Critical Essays (Twentieth Century Interpretations) by R. B. Parker on page 117, and Back Matter
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Signet) by Tennessee Williams on page 6, and Back Matter
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