IV. Topic Sentence of Third Paragraph of Proof: Laura is too shy to deal with reality. Support #1 Laura tied to the memory of her brace and being crippled. Support #2 Laura can never finish what she starts because of her inability to communicate anyone outside of her life in the apartment and seeks escape through friendship in her glass menagerie and gramophone. Support #3 Laura’s frustrated love of Jim and the realization that she is not unique.
Jim O’Connor was Tom Wingfield’s potential escape from his mom. Earlier on in the story, Amanda makes a deal with Tom that if he can find his socially challenged sister, Laura, a husband to take care of her, he can leave and never come back. When Jim comes, he leads Laura on and gives her and everyone else the impression that he likes her. But at the last minute, he tells everyone that he is engaged to be married and then makes a hasty exit. Shortly thereafter, Tom and Amanda get into an argument and Tom abandons them right then and there out of anger.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin is about a boy who never really had much; he was born into rags and lived in rags his entire life until he was taken in by the Widow Douglas, who gave him clothes and tried to educate him. Huck did end up reading and continued school for a while, even if he only continued school just to spite his father. Huck hated and feared his father, seeing how Pap was unpredictable and was the town drunk. Lily’s father in the Secret Life of Bees also struck fear in his child. You could tell Lily was afraid of her father, seeing how she hesitated to tell him about events such as her birthday.
The reader can see this when John says, “But he is an old man living there all alone. What is it Anne? You’re not like yourself this morning” (Ross, 288) One can see in this quote that Anne’s happiness is starting to change after hearing news about John leaving to see his dad again. She is starting to get aggravated by it, and wishes that John would just stop going. Later on in the story, one see’s in this quote by Anne, ““I mustn’t,” she said aloud again “I married him....”” (Ross, 293) that she is trying to convince herself not to sleep with Steve because of her relationship with John.
Breaking of the unicorn symbolizing part of the innocence Laura has lost. When Jim tells Laura of his engagement she is heartbroken. She no longer feels that uniqueness she once shared with the unicorn. When Laura gives Jim her unicorn, she gives his her broken heart. In this play Jim represents the outside world, and when Laura becomes exposed to that outside world she breaks, just like her unicorn.
This is shown through how Jefferson and its people ignore Emily’s mental problems; how she is indoctrinated to think she needs a man in her life; and by the way that the people of Jefferson allow her to get away with several incidents without paying the consequences. These issues are all driven by the culture Jefferson that stems from the time period and influences of Southern culture. One aspect of Jefferson that helps turn Emily into a reclusive murderer is how everyone seems to ignore Emily’s mental health issues. Everyone babies and pities Emily from the time that she is born to the time that she dies and this meant that her mental problems were never fully recognized. One example is of how she denied her father’s death and would not let go of his corpse for three days after he died: “The day after his death, all the ladies prepared to call at the house and offer condolence and aid, as is our custom.
When he returns from the movies he mentions the magician’s trick “We nailed him into a coffin and he got out of the coffin without removing one nail. “ The magicians trick juxtaposes with Tom’s inability to escape from his family. Juxtaposition is used here to show the freedom of the magician and Tom feeling trapped. The coffin represents Tom’s life to which he is confined and the nails symbolize the emotional constraints and an obligation Tom has towards his crippled sister Laura. Laura herself “lives in a world of her own—a world of—little glass ornaments” and the breaking of the animals by Tom foreshadows his abandonment of fraternal duties towards her.
Another Symbolic place for Tom is the fire escape; this is where he goes to smoke. Fire escapes are used to flee from fires, which is also the place Tom enjoys to get out of the house. Laura is Tom’s sister she is a high school drop out that never amounted to anything. Laura collects Glass Menageries. The Glass Menagerie symbolizes how fragile Laura is.
This passage is relatable to my life because although the women are wished luck in certain cultures she can be cast off by her family into a new world in a new house and style of living. A like college life for me I have not been able to ask my parents for help all too often but rather live my life by myself with my own money and experiences. Bateson sat in on a day of preschool for her daughter. While at school she realizes the big culture difference between the groups of humans when the teacher throws away all of the drawings done by the children during their drawing time. This passage shows the huge difference between a cultures that rewards creativity in children to not showing any concern in their creativity at all.
When Willy arrives, he refuses to listen to Biff, which angers him. Happy tries to get Biff to lie to his father, which Biff slightly does. Willy falls into another flashback hallucination, one in which his son discovers his affair with a potential customer in Boston. From that moment on, Biff had never looked at his father the same. Back in the Lowman residence, Linda scolds her sons for abandoning her father back at the restaurant.