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"THE GLASS MENAGERIE"

Steven E. Milburn Jr.

Milburn 1

"THE GLASS MENAGERIE":

Ingredients of a Tragic Drama and a Modern Tragic Heroine

Tennessee Williams wrote and created the play, "The Glass Menagerie," with the

concept of tragedy in mind. Random House's denotative meaning of the word tragedy is

as follows: a dramatic composition, often in verse, dealing with a serious or somber

theme, typically that of a great person destined through a flaw of character or conflict

with some overpowering force, as fate or society, to down fall or destruction. The play

takes place within a small dingy apartment in St. Louis during the late 1930's, a time of

enjoying a waltz, listening to phonograph records, and experiencing social or economical

misfortune. The action of the play revolves around three characters that are all

Wingfields: Amanda (the mother,) Tom (the son,) and Laura (the daughter). Each

character endures some type of......

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