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Set in UsefulNotes/StLouis, Missouri during the 1930s, the play centers around the Wingfields--[[MyBelovedSmother Amanda]], [[AloofBigBrother Tom]], and [[ShrinkingViolet Laura]]--whose relationship has become strained since [[DisappearedDad Mr. Wingfield]] abandoned them. While Tom works in a shoe warehouse to support the family, he dreams of leaving home and frequently goes out to the movies as an escape. Amanda obsesses over finding a suitor for Laura, who's so shy that she locks herself up in her room and admires the eponymous collection of glass animal figurines she keeps.
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Set in UsefulNotes/StLouis, Missouri during the 1930s, the play centers around the Wingfields--[[MyBelovedSmother Wingfields ([[MyBelovedSmother Amanda]], [[AloofBigBrother Tom]], and [[ShrinkingViolet Laura]]--whose Laura]]), whose relationship has become strained since [[DisappearedDad Mr. Wingfield]] abandoned them. While Tom works in a shoe warehouse to support the family, he dreams of leaving home and frequently goes out to the movies as an escape. Amanda obsesses over finding a suitor for Laura, who's so shy that she locks herself up in her room and admires the eponymous collection of glass animal figurines she keeps.
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''The Glass Menagerie'' is a 1944 play by Creator/TennesseeWilliams, set in UsefulNotes/StLouis, Missouri in the 1930s. Williams's first major work, it is an important part of the American theatrical repertoire and continues to be performed successfully by both professional and amateur theatres.
The play centers around the Wingfields: [[MyBelovedSmother Amanda]], [[AloofBigBrother Tom]], and [[ShrinkingViolet Laura]]. Their relationship has become strained since [[DisappearedDad Mr. Wingfield]] left them. While Tom works in a shoe warehouse to support the family, he dreams of leaving home and frequently watches movies in cheap theaters. Amanda obsesses over finding a suitor for Laura, who's so shy that she locks herself up in her room and admires the eponymous collection of glass animal figurines she keeps.
The play centers around the Wingfields: [[MyBelovedSmother Amanda]], [[AloofBigBrother Tom]], and [[ShrinkingViolet Laura]]. Their relationship has become strained since [[DisappearedDad Mr. Wingfield]] left them. While Tom works in a shoe warehouse to support the family, he dreams of leaving home and frequently watches movies in cheap theaters. Amanda obsesses over finding a suitor for Laura, who's so shy that she locks herself up in her room and admires the eponymous collection of glass animal figurines she keeps.
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''The Glass Menagerie'' is a 1944 play by Creator/TennesseeWilliams, set in UsefulNotes/StLouis, Missouri in the 1930s. Williams's Creator/TennesseeWilliams. His first major work, it is an important part of the American theatrical repertoire and continues to be performed successfully by both professional and amateur theatres.
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Set in UsefulNotes/StLouis, Missouri during the 1930s, the play centers around theWingfields: [[MyBelovedSmother Wingfields--[[MyBelovedSmother Amanda]], [[AloofBigBrother Tom]], and [[ShrinkingViolet Laura]]. Their Laura]]--whose relationship has become strained since [[DisappearedDad Mr. Wingfield]] left abandoned them. While Tom works in a shoe warehouse to support the family, he dreams of leaving home and frequently watches goes out to the movies in cheap theaters.as an escape. Amanda obsesses over finding a suitor for Laura, who's so shy that she locks herself up in her room and admires the eponymous collection of glass animal figurines she keeps.
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''The Glass Menagerie'' is a 1944 play by Creator/TennesseeWilliams, set in St. Louis, UsefulNotes/StLouis, Missouri in the 1930s. Williams's first major work, it is an important part of the American theatrical repertoire and continues to be performed successfully by both professional and amateur theatres.
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* AntiEscapismAesop: [[spoiler: Tom's desire for adventure causes him to abandon his family... Which leaves everyone much worse off and miserable in the long run, with Laura and Amanda's fate unknown but likely decidedly unpleasant given they won't have enough money to support themselves, and Tom wracked with guilt for the rest of his life.]]
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* PoorCommunicationKills: Tom doesn't tell Jim that the dinner is supposed to introduce Jim as a suitor to Laura. [[spoiler:Jim is already engaged.]]
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* PoorCommunicationKills: Tom doesn't tell Jim that the dinner is supposed to introduce Jim as a suitor to Laura. [[spoiler:Jim is already engaged. Amanda is suspicious that tom [[{{Troll}} did this on purpose]] but there's no clear indication of this.]]
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* DysfunctionJunction: The Wingfields have something appoaching the complete opposite of a healthy family dynamic. [[MyBelovedSmother Amanda]], after being abandoned by Mr. Wingfield, is paranoid about her children's lives, spends most of her time living in the past and is ''extremely'' controlling, leading to clashes with the independently-minded Tom who is also resentful of his father's departure, forcing him to work an awful job to support the family, wheras Laura's [[AmbiguousDisorder anxiety]] isn't being made any better by the constant conflict nor Amanda's repeated, foolhardy attempts to model her daughter after herself.
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* DysfunctionJunction: The Wingfields have something appoaching approaching the complete opposite of a healthy family dynamic. [[MyBelovedSmother Amanda]], after being abandoned by Mr. Wingfield, is paranoid about her children's lives, spends most of her time living in the past and is ''extremely'' controlling, leading to clashes with the independently-minded Tom who is also resentful of his father's departure, forcing him to work an awful job to support the family, wheras Laura's [[AmbiguousDisorder anxiety]] isn't being made any better by the constant conflict nor Amanda's repeated, foolhardy attempts to model her daughter after herself.
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* DysfunctionJunction: The Wingfields have something appoaching the complete opposite of a healthy family dynamic. [[MyBelovedSmother Amanda]], after being [[DissapearedDad abandoned by Mr. Wingfield]], is paranoid about her children's lives, spends most of her time living in the past and is ''extremely'' controlling, leading to clashes with the independently-minded Tom who is also resentful of his father's departure, forcing him to work an awful job to support the family, wheras Laura's [[AmbiguousDisorder anxiety]] isn't being made any better by the constant conflict nor Amanda's repeated, foolhardy attempts to model her daughter after herself.
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* DysfunctionJunction: The Wingfields have something appoaching the complete opposite of a healthy family dynamic. [[MyBelovedSmother Amanda]], after being [[DissapearedDad abandoned by Mr. Wingfield]], Wingfield, is paranoid about her children's lives, spends most of her time living in the past and is ''extremely'' controlling, leading to clashes with the independently-minded Tom who is also resentful of his father's departure, forcing him to work an awful job to support the family, wheras Laura's [[AmbiguousDisorder anxiety]] isn't being made any better by the constant conflict nor Amanda's repeated, foolhardy attempts to model her daughter after herself. herself.
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* DysfunctionJunction: The Wingfields have something appoaching the complete opposite of a healthy family dynamic. [[MyBelovedSmother Amanda]], after being [[DissapearedDad abandoned by Mr. Wingfield]], is paranoid about her children's lives, spends most of her time living in the past and is ''extremely'' controlling, leading to clashes with the independently-minded Tom who is also resentful of his father's departure, forcing him to work an awful job to support the family, wheras Laura's [[AmbiguousDisorder anxiety]] isn't being made any better by the constant conflict nor Amanda's repeated, foolhardy attempts to model her daughter after herself.
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* {{Hikikomori}}: Laura.
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* RomanAClef: The play is very stongly based on Creator/TennesseeWilliams' own life - he takes the form of [[AuthorAvatar Tom]], Laura stands in for his mentally disabled sister Rose (who he also felt guilty over not being able to help, especially after she suffered a botched lobotomy), Amanda, his mother, and Mr Wingfield his [[AbusiveParents abusive]], often-absent salesman father.
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* RomanAClef: The play is very stongly strongly based on Creator/TennesseeWilliams' own life - he takes the form of [[AuthorAvatar Tom]], Laura stands in for his mentally disabled sister Rose (who he also felt guilty over not being able to help, especially after she suffered a botched lobotomy), Amanda, his mother, and Mr Wingfield his [[AbusiveParents abusive]], often-absent salesman father.
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* RomanaClef: The play is very stongly based on Creator/TennesseeWilliams' own life - he takes the form of [[AuthorAvatar Tom]], Laura stands in for his mentally disabled sister Rose (who he also felt guilty over not being able to help, especially after she suffered a botched lobotomy), Amanda, his mother, and Mr Wingfield his [[AbusiveParents abusive]], often-absent salesman father.
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* RomanaClef: RomanAClef: The play is very stongly based on Creator/TennesseeWilliams' own life - he takes the form of [[AuthorAvatar Tom]], Laura stands in for his mentally disabled sister Rose (who he also felt guilty over not being able to help, especially after she suffered a botched lobotomy), Amanda, his mother, and Mr Wingfield his [[AbusiveParents abusive]], often-absent salesman father.
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* AloofBigBrother: Tom, although more to his mother than to his sister.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Laura's disorder is never named, but she may be suffering from anxiety disorder and/or mild schizophrenia. Her poor social skills and fixation on glass figurines could indicate some form of autism.
* AuthorAvatar: The play is semi-autobiographical: Tom is Tennessee Williams himself, Laura is his mentally disabled sister Rose, and Amanda is his mother.
* BeautifulAllAlong: Laura. Cruelly subverted that [[spoiler:just after she made an indication that she could do so, the crushing blow of TheReveal was so much that she went back to ShrinkingViolet territory.]]
* AmbiguousDisorder: Laura's disorder is never named, but she may be suffering from anxiety disorder and/or mild schizophrenia. Her poor social skills and fixation on glass figurines could indicate some form of autism.
* AuthorAvatar: The play is semi-autobiographical: Tom is Tennessee Williams himself, Laura is his mentally disabled sister Rose, and Amanda is his mother.
* BeautifulAllAlong: Laura. Cruelly subverted that [[spoiler:just after she made an indication that she could do so, the crushing blow of TheReveal was so much that she went back to ShrinkingViolet territory.]]
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* DeadpanSnarker: A few of Tom's lines.
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Tom, in his monologue in the end.
* DisappearedDad: Mr. Wingfield.
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Tom, in his monologue in the end.
* DisappearedDad: Mr. Wingfield.
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* GenerationXerox: [[spoiler:Tom abandons his mother and sister, just like his father.]]
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* InformedFlaw: Laura being crippled. It doesn't show, though supposedly she wore a brace in high school.
* IWasQuiteALooker: Amanda boasts on and on about the ''seventeen'' gentlemen callers she had back in her youth.
* {{Jerkass}}: Amanda. Tom, too, but for good reason.
* IWasQuiteALooker: Amanda boasts on and on about the ''seventeen'' gentlemen callers she had back in her youth.
* {{Jerkass}}: Amanda. Tom, too, but for good reason.
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* LonelyDollGirl: Laura, with her collection of glass figures.
* MakeAWish: Played with. Tom assumed Amanda's wish on the moon would be a gentleman caller for Laura, but was actually the best for her children. Both wishes are subverted when [[spoiler:the potential suitor Tom finds turns out to be taken and neither Tom nor Laura are happy in the end]].
* MyBelovedSmother: Amanda is very overbearing, towards Tom in particular, best demonstrated by her lecturing him on how to chew in the first scene.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Tom's closing monologue reveals that [[spoiler: after getting fired from the warehouse shortly after the events of the final scene, he finally left St Louis and his family behind to travel the world as a merchant sailor... But he laments that no matter where he went, he found himself haunted by the guilt of abandoning Laura.]]
* MakeAWish: Played with. Tom assumed Amanda's wish on the moon would be a gentleman caller for Laura, but was actually the best for her children. Both wishes are subverted when [[spoiler:the potential suitor Tom finds turns out to be taken and neither Tom nor Laura are happy in the end]].
* MyBelovedSmother: Amanda is very overbearing, towards Tom in particular, best demonstrated by her lecturing him on how to chew in the first scene.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Tom's closing monologue reveals that [[spoiler: after getting fired from the warehouse shortly after the events of the final scene, he finally left St Louis and his family behind to travel the world as a merchant sailor... But he laments that no matter where he went, he found himself haunted by the guilt of abandoning Laura.]]
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* MyBelovedSmother: Amanda is very overbearing, towards Tom in particular, best demonstrated by her lecturing him on how to chew in the first scene.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Tom's closing monologue reveals that [[spoiler: after getting fired from the warehouse shortly after the events of the final scene, he finally left St Louis and his family behind to travel the world as a merchant sailor... But he laments that no matter where he went, he found himself haunted by the guilt of abandoning Laura.]]
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* NiceGuy: Jim. In fact, that's Tennessee William's whole character description of Jim.
* OldMaid: The implication is that if Jim doesn't marry Laura, she's doomed to a life of spinsterhood. [[spoiler:He doesn't.]]
* OutDamnedSpot: [[spoiler:Tom's whole reason for telling this story is that he feels guilty for abandoning his family.]]
* OldMaid: The implication is that if Jim doesn't marry Laura, she's doomed to a life of spinsterhood. [[spoiler:He doesn't.]]
* OutDamnedSpot: [[spoiler:Tom's whole reason for telling this story is that he feels guilty for abandoning his family.]]
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* RichesToRags: Amanda was born into a wealthy family, spending her days being waited on by servants, hobnobbing at fancy parties and being courted by landowners' heirs... Until she married the deceptively charming Mr Wingfield, who left her living in near-poverty in St Louis with a bitter son and disabled daughter.
* RichesToRags: Amanda was born into a wealthy family, spending her days being waited on by servants, hobnobbing at fancy parties and being courted by landowners' heirs... Until she married the deceptively charming Mr Wingfield, who left her living in near-poverty in St Louis with a bitter son and disabled daughter.
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* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Jim is already engaged.]]
* RichesToRags: Amanda was born into a wealthy family, spending her days being waited on by servants, hobnobbing at fancy parties and being courted by landowners' heirs... Until she married the deceptively charming Mr Wingfield, who left her living in near-poverty in St Louis with a bitter son and disabled daughter.]].
* RichesToRags: Amanda was born into a wealthy family, spending her days being waited on by servants, hobnobbing at fancy parties and being courted by landowners' heirs... Until she married the deceptively charming Mr Wingfield, who left her living in near-poverty in St Louis with a bitter son and disabled daughter.
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* ShrinkingViolet: Laura. She's so shy that being in a ''typing class'' caused her to vomit.
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* UnreliableNarrator: In his opening monologue, Tom concedes that the play is his memory, with which he has taken considerable creative licence, and that the most realistic of the characters shown is Jim.
* WideEyedIdealist: Despite working in the same shoe warehouse as Tom and only earning $20 more a month than him, Jim is ''wholeheartedly'' sold on UsefulNotes/TheAmericanDream: he's convinced he can become an executive, taking night-school classes in public speaking to prepare himself, and frequently waxes lyrical about the wonders of America and capitalism.
--> '''Jim:''' "''Knowledge'' - Zzzzzzp! ''Money'' - Zzzzzzp! - ''Power!'' That's the cycle democracy is built on!"
* WideEyedIdealist: Despite working in the same shoe warehouse as Tom and only earning $20 more a month than him, Jim is ''wholeheartedly'' sold on UsefulNotes/TheAmericanDream: he's convinced he can become an executive, taking night-school classes in public speaking to prepare himself, and frequently waxes lyrical about the wonders of America and capitalism.
--> '''Jim:''' "''Knowledge'' - Zzzzzzp! ''Money'' - Zzzzzzp! - ''Power!'' That's the cycle democracy is built on!"
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* ItWillNeverCatchOn: Jim remarks with starry-eyed glee on how wonderful the future in America is going to be, coming off as a daydreaming WideEyedIdealist- but considering the unprecedented prosperity of the US in the 50's and 60's, it could be argued that he turned out to be somewhat correct.
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* WideEyedIdealist: Despite working in the same shoe warehouse as Tom and only earning $20 more a month than him, Jim is ''wholeheartedly'' sold on the American Dream: he's convinced he can become an executive, taking night-school classes in public speaking to prepare himself, and frequently waxes lyrical about the wonders of America and capitalism.
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* NewMediaAreEvil: Tom goes on a long rant about how cinema pacifies people by offering them adventure through the medium of the silver screen, blinding them to the fact they aren't experiencing any adventures of their own.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Tom's closing monologue reveals that [[spoiler: after getting fired from the warehouse, he made up his mind to leave St Louis and his family behind to travel the world as a merchant sailor... But he laments that no matter where he went, he found himself haunted by the guilt of abandoning Laura.]]
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Tom's closing monologue reveals that [[spoiler: after getting fired from the warehouse, warehouse shortly after the events of the final scene, he made up his mind to leave finally left St Louis and his family behind to travel the world as a merchant sailor... But he laments that no matter where he went, he found himself haunted by the guilt of abandoning Laura.]]
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Tom's closing monologue reveals that [[spoiler: after getting fired from the warehouse, he made up his mind to leave St Louis and his family behind and to travel the world as a merchant sailor... But he laments that no matter where he went, he found himself haunted by the guilt of abandoning Amanda.]]
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Tom's closing monologue reveals that [[spoiler: after getting fired from the warehouse, he made up his mind to leave St Louis and his family behind and travel the world as a merchant sailor... But he laments that no matter where he went, he found himself haunted by the guilt of abandoning Amanda.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Tom's closing monologue reveals that [[spoiler: after getting fired from the warehouse, he made up his mind to leave St Louis and his family behind and travel the world as a merchant sailor... But he laments that no matter where he went, he found himself haunted by the guilt of abandoning Amanda.]]
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The play centers around the Wingfields: [[MyBelovedSmother Amanda]], [[AloofBigBrother Tom]], and [[ShrinkingViolet Laura]]. Their relationship has become strained since [[DisappearedDad Mr. Wingfield]] left them. While Tom works in a warehouse to support the family, he dreams of leaving home and frequently watches movies in cheap theaters. Amanda obsesses over finding a suitor for Laura, who's so shy that she locks herself up in her room and admires the eponymous collection of glass animal figurines she keeps.
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The play centers around the Wingfields: [[MyBelovedSmother Amanda]], [[AloofBigBrother Tom]], and [[ShrinkingViolet Laura]]. Their relationship has become strained since [[DisappearedDad Mr. Wingfield]] left them. While Tom works in a shoe warehouse to support the family, he dreams of leaving home and frequently watches movies in cheap theaters. Amanda obsesses over finding a suitor for Laura, who's so shy that she locks herself up in her room and admires the eponymous collection of glass animal figurines she keeps.
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* TheFilmOfTheBook: Several adaptations of varying quality. The two theatrical versions, Irving Rapper's 1950 film with Gertrude Lawrence, Arthur Kennedy, Creator/JaneWyman and a young Creator/KirkDouglas, and a 1987 adaptation, directed by Creator/PaulNewman and starring Joanne Woodward and Creator/JohnMalkovich, have mixed critical reputations. A 1973 TV version starring Creator/KatharineHepburn and Creator/SamWaterston is much better-regarded.
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* TheFilmOfTheBook: Several adaptations of varying quality. The two theatrical versions, Irving Rapper's 1950 film with Gertrude Lawrence, Arthur Kennedy, Creator/JaneWyman and a young Creator/KirkDouglas, and a 1987 adaptation, adaptation directed by Creator/PaulNewman and starring Joanne Woodward and Creator/JohnMalkovich, have mixed critical reputations. A 1973 TV reputations; while two made-for-TV productions, a 1966 version starring Shirley Booth and Creator/HalHolbrook and a 1973 film starring Creator/KatharineHepburn and Creator/SamWaterston is Creator/SamWaterston, are much better-regarded.
