The Dreamers of The Glass Menagerie :: Glass Menagerie essays

The Dreamers of The Glass Menagerie      The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams shows the postulate of twopeople to fit into society, Tom and Laura, and how society wouldnt accept them.They were the ambitiousnessers that were unjustly kept out and you may even go as far asto say persecuted into staying out and aloof like the other dreamers which areforced to become outcasts and not contribute to the actions of all.      Tom and Laura, the two dreamers, were pushed by their mom, Amanda, to herframe of legal opinion and the thoughts of a hard working society. They both stumbled onthe fire escape which served as a gateway, physically and mentally. Tom had theproblem of fitting in at the warehouse were he worked, because is the warehousereally a place for someone like him and his mind rebelled. Lastly you can seehow society forced them to sort and Laura to lose her status in order to fitin with Jim and thats shown by the horn breaking. Tom then realizes that andleaves which causes him to change too. Tennessee Williams artfully depicted this.      The fire escape. A downtrodden red thing off the sides of buildings showingsocieties ineffectual escape from itself. In this case it served as a passagewaybetween the real world and the dream one that Laura and Tom were living in athome. Both somehow stumbled both physically and mentally. When Laura said Imall pay. I slipped but Im all right(47). She was trying to pass to the realworld to do a real job and couldnt because of societies inability to accepther and her ways. She wasnt tight enough to make the trip by herself, butneeded the moral support of the other dreamer in the area, which was Tom whocame running out. Tom is the one who stumbles mentally in his inability to portat the escape, which would be his way out of the place. He was always losing hisstrength while out there smoking and looking out into the world. Recognizing thesounds and trying t o assort but unable to. He was forced away and unable tobring up the strength inside himself to go out and leave and to stay strong as adreamer. Forced by society to use it as a gateway instead of just keeping it thesame and just a mode of transportation to go down.      Every night you hear Tom say, Im going to the movies (42). He uses thatas an escape of the imagination which is what made him a dreamer.