The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams Essay -- Glass Menagerie Ten

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams-Joseph K. Davis, Landscapes of the Dislocated Mind in WilliamsThe Glass Menagerie, in Tennessee Williams A auspicesTom and his sister Laura is symbolically the actual glass zoo, the play belongs to neither of them. The play belongs to their mother, Amanda, as substantiated bythe above quote from Joseph K. Davis. Amanda indulges herself inmemories of the past and refuses to sham the present. The play is besides hers because it is her tragedy. It is about how she behavesafter her husband leaves her and her reaction when her son shows signsof doing the same. She in like manner controls the two remainders of the play, aswell as the glass menagerie represents her fragile world of illusionsand memories of the past.Amandas control over the two conflicts of the play exists in the factthat she cr wash upes them. She supplies the conflict between herself andTom as well as provides the conflict of having Laura marry. In thecase of Tom she constant ly nags him and questions where is he.Is going and then openly states her doubts of his truthfulness. Hernagging starts in the beginning of the play in her conversation withTom, in which she tells him how to eat his food. Later she tells himhow costliness of his smoking habit, You smoke too much. A pack aday at fifteen cents a pack. How much would that amount to in a month?. Later in the play she also manages to comment on Toms appearanceand how she wished he would take better care of himself in thatrespect. She also accuses Tom of lying about where he is going atnight. When he says that he is at the movies she states that he couldnot possibly be going to the movies any night, Nobody goes to the... ...longer a Southern Belle just standing aroundwaiting for rich men to come by and propose.By her speaking like a Southern Belle, she is connected her to theworld she creates of illusions and the one for show. The connectionsare achieved by the fact that in the past she was Southern B elle withmany rich suitors vying for her hand in marriage. This is also anillusion because she is no longer a Southern Belle but tries tomaintain that front.It is also this connection to her illusions of the past that combinesthe proof that this is her play. She is the one who creates the worldshe lives in to comfort herself from the tragedy of her husbandleaving her. She is also the one who causes the conflict of the playout of her illusions of the past and therefore she is the person whodramatizes the tragedy of not living honestly and fully in thepresent.