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In Tennessee Williams, "The Glass Menagerie", symbolism is used to show how badly Tom wants to escape reality, and how Amanda wishes for days gone by. The fire escape is the one common symbol for both of them.
For Tom, the fire escape symbolizes his escape from his over bearing mother, Amanda, disabled sister, Laura. Tom uses the fire escape to literally leave the apartment, only to escape to an unreal world of movies and drinking. Of course, he also uses it to go to work at a job in the shoe warehouse, which he completely abhorres. When he returns home, he is
questioned by both his mother and sister concerning his whereabouts. He only tells them
that he has been at the movies. This only upsets Amanda because she can tell that he has
been out drinking. She becomes afraid that he is going to turn out like his father, who was a
drunkard and walked out on them. Amanda has a tendancy to be extremely over bearing in her ways, by dictating exactly how Tom and Laura......

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