The Glass Menagerie was originally produced in Chicago in 1944 and then staged in New York on Broadway in 1945. Like many coming of age stories, the major conflicts in this play are both internal and external. In some days, this is a coming of age story, with both Tom Wingfield and Laura Wingfield negotiating their roles as young adults. The Glass Menagerie is autobiographical in its sources. Although Tom leaves his family in the end, abandoning Amanda and Laura to pursue an independent future, the fact that he has created this play shows that he can never truly leave his memories, and therefore his family, behind.The Glass Menagerie was originally produced in Chicago in 1944 and then staged in New work on Broadway in 1945. The oscillation between Tom’s desire for freedom and inability to escape forms the emotional tension underlying the entire play. He goes to the movies night after night, attempting to escape into action-adventure narrative he also attempts to escape through alcohol, as indicated by the bottles poking out of his pockets. Tom frequently goes to the fire escape and smokes cigarettes, symbolically escaping the house yet remaining trapped onstage and in the tenement. Dissatisfied with his monotonous warehouse job, he writes poetry on the side and plots a future in the merchant marines. Tom feels fettered by the constraints of his job and his family and yearns for escape in all aspects of his life. He addresses the audience directly to frame and present analysis of the events, but he also participates in the play’s actions as a character within his own recollections. The play is from the perspective of Tom’s memories. Amanda’s son and Laura’s brother, Tom plays a dual role in the play as both the narrator and protagonist.
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