?The Glass Menagerie?

In the ?The Glass Menagerie?, two themes are used so that the characters

can deal with their painful facts of life. ?Illusion? and ?Escape? are the two themes which

all the characters use. Tom Wingfield uses both of these themes to try and live a good

happy life. Tom is capable of maintaining a life outside of his home, at his job, and

going out of town. Tom is not a business man, he prefers more of a literature and

reading environment to sustain his fantasies. Amanda Wingfield is another character that

uses illusion and escape to deal with the painful facts of life also.

The Wingfields are distinguished and tied together by their similarly weak

relationships to reality. However, the illusions to which they concede are not exclusively a

characteristic of theirs. The outside world is just as open to illusion. Tom also finds

illusion in the movies he watches, Tom think?s that other viewers at the movies he......

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Title: Glass Menagerie
Approximate Word Count: 452
Approximate Pages: 2 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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