Description

Tennessee Williams's seminal memory play, The Glass Menagerie, offers a poignant and lyrical exploration of illusion, memory, and the fragile bonds of family. Set in the cramped St. Louis apartment of the Wingfield family, the narrative unfolds through the eyes of Tom, a poet trapped by his factory job and his overbearing mother, Amanda. As Tom struggles to escape his suffocating reality, he grapples with his responsibility to his delicate, glass-collecting sister, Laura, and the elusive nature of happiness.

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paperback edition cover

paperback

New Directions

Published Jan 1, 1999

105 pages

ISBN: 9780811214049

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Details

First Published

1944

Language

eng

Content Warnings

Content and trigger warnings for The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams.

Death/Grief