|
|
Have you been looking all over the internet for a term paper? Stop looking now! Paper University has over 45,000 term papers all in one place. Our huge online paper library
has college papers on all sorts of topics and they are all available for downloading or printing immediately. If you are thinking this will cost an arm and a leg, you are
wrong! Get instant access to our members section for one low monthly price with no additional fees or long-term obligations. It doesn't matter if you are downloading one essay or one hundred.
Join today and get the essay writing help that you need.
The Glass Menagerie: Symbols
Beginning of Paper
"I have a poet's weakness for symbols." So states Tom Wingfield, narrator
and major character in Tennessee William's timeless play “The Glass
Menagerie”. Through the eyes of Tom, the viewer gets a glance into the life
of his family in the pre-war depression era; his mother, a so .... Middle of Paper .... fire,
not the type of fire that was considered in its building, but “the slow and
implacable fires of human desperation.” This is especially true of Tom's
apartment. His mother, devastated after her daughter Laura's failure to
cope in business college, becomes obsessed with finding her a gentleman
caller so that she can marry and be well supported. When this caller
finally comes, and it seems like it was meant to be, as they dance and kiss,
he announces he is engaged, and dashes their hopes. The ever-fragile Laura,
temporarily drawn out ....
1144 words | 5 pages
Subscription Length |
Price |
Join |
30 days membership (recurring) |
$19.95 |
90 days membership (recurring) |
$39.95 |
180 days membership (non-recurring) |
$69.95 |
|
|
|
|
|