In brief, (1)The Glass Menagerie is about a family. The mother was nostalgia the past, the son was a worker in the shoe factory, and the sister is crippled which was avoiding the real world and collecting glass menagerie every day. (2)The Metamorphosis is talked about a person waking to find himself transformed into a large, monstrous insect-like creature. He attempts to adjust to his new condition as he deals with being burdensome to his parents and sister. At first the family members are pleased to help the protagonist in difficulties, but later on the help and situation became burden so they have to struggle or abandon the original plan.
The family having lived in America during the American Great Depression, it is clear that the family was ravaging in poverty and poor education. In fact, Nicole had to be assisted on how to write the letter to his father by the wife because he had no knowledge of how to write one (Mazer, 1993). In abundance desire to share his memories, Nicole found it valuable to invite some of his friends who could dine and share memories together with is his family (Mazer, 1993). Nicole valued his friends as his family, which helps the story buttress the importance of family (Mazer, 1993). According to the story, it is unfortunate that the dog found the goatskin and ate it up making it hard to build the ciramella (Mazer, 1993).
The audience begin to hope Laura’s romantic dreams will become her reality and she will stop living in the lonely world she has wrapped herself in - the four apartment walls acting as her shield. As the play is a memory play the audience are conscious of Tom, the only reliable source of fixed income, leaving (he begins the play narrating from the future, away from the family). Therefore, the audience are very aware that Laura and Amanda’s future and most importantly livelihood, depends on this evening with Jim being a success. Especially since Laura will probably not receive another gentleman caller. They are made to wonder who will provide for these two dependent women, especially Laura seeing as see she is unable to fend for herself – she dropped out of Business College.
Alice's parents tell her who she is permitted to see. They also instruct her how to dress, and of course how not to. It is through experiences such as Alice's younger sister falling off the bed, under her watch, that Alice's parents have a crucial influence on her self-discovery. Specifically, Alice's relatives influence her self-discovery journey by not being supportive. As Alice had to grow up basically looking after her self and her younger siblings she learned that even if you do not have support you still need to follow your dreams and live you life.
Dolly hates Oriel, because in her, Dolly sees herself as a failure. Oriels life has been torn apart by the drowning of the family favourite, Fish, and the failed miracle of Fishes partial recovery. She believes in work and family and the nation, and struggles to regain her belief in God through the entirety of the novel. Rose Pickles was forced into a role of responsibility at a very early age, she is pushed into a maternal role for her father and brothers because her ‘sex crazed’ mother Dolly, who spends most of her nights with strange men or in the bar ‘men are lovely’. Rose is first introduced in the novel while she is collecting Dolly at a pub, at the age of 14 she refuses to do it anymore.
Georgeann begins to cry and explains to her teacher that she is defending Rose-Johnny’s honor. Georgeann becomes overwhelmed because of the fight she just encountered with the mattox boy and hiding the fact that she had any communications with her, she runs to the Welch store to visit rose-Johnny. From hanging out with Rose-Johnny many problems have occurred such as Mary Etta, Georgeann’s sister getting attacked by one out of the four boys of the mattox boys who georgeann fought. Mary Etta’s favorite dress that she worn the day of her attack was torn off and stained with dirt. Her face was swollen and there were marks on her neck.
Eveline’s father plays a big part in the story, since it seems like he, and the promise Eveline made to her mother, are the main factors behind Eveline’s thoughts and decisions. The story starts very slow and sad with the author using words like, “invade”, and “dusty”. Once this sad mood is set in the first paragraph, Eveline then begins to think back to her childhood. Through this reminiscing, we learn that her mother is dead, and her father is abusive (through her choice of the word “hunt” when she mentions how he would get them in from playing). Eveline, however, has a chance to escape her current life by leaving with, and marrying a sailor she has met and been secretly dating.
Many events in the book were very sad and touching when Foster the main girl in the story keeps a pillow case just with her dads stuff in there after he died in the army, she lives with her mom and her boyfriend named Huck who isn’t as nice to Foster at most times making her call him Elvis thinking of himself as a really good singer making Fosters mom the backstage singer and some days he even hits her mom at times and finally one day they get into a fight making Huck break into their house and hitting her mom so badly that they have to run away from their house very fast finding a safe place with Huck coming behind them with his car chasing them and soon they outrun him and arrive to West Virginia. Foster a 12 year old girl with a huge love for baking can bake almost anything possible to bake but she only has one problem she can’t read at all when she starts “it’s like my brain starts to close
She was a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games that left him nearly dead. He had to learn how to play his mother's games in order to survive because she no longer considered him a son, but a slave; no longer a boy, but an "it." A Child Called “It” describes one of the worst documented cases of child abuse in California history. Dave lived I a world of starvation, cruelty, and torture from the age of four until he was rescued by school officials at the age of twelve. In the following scene, Dave’s mother is yelling at him and tried to force him to lie on flames so she could watch
The last one is the rainbows, which symbolize unrealized hopes and aspirations. Those themes are revealed in a stylized, artistic manner, which is one, the reasons why the Glass Menagerie is a meaningful classic. At the beginning of the story, the author told Mr. Wingfield left his family for a life in the road. He used to work for the telephone company and fell in love with long distances. So, the situation of Tom father did not take his liability left Tom with all the responsibilities to take care the family including the overbearing mother Amanda and his disabled sister Laura.