Reading Report The Glass Menagerie

If ever there were one literary work most strongly depicting the miseries of human life, Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie would be it. Throughout the entire story are thoughts/feelings encountered by people in real life . . . although the play script-turned-novel presents those emotions to the audience surreptitiously. The story is of three not unusual characters – Amanda, Tom, and Laura – in a family. Amanda, the mother, is now without a husband trying to look after …

…Jim walks in, and Laura admits to knowing him previously. And any further and there would be no more of the novel to have the fun of reading. Tennessee Williams’s play, The Glass Menagerie, although a sad work, turned out to be the turning point of his career when it was accepted without question into Chicago, and later American, theater. The play was a dramatization – although not fully – of Williams’s own troubled childhood.