Tom Wingfield is in the fire-escape area outside the Wingfield apartment. The set has an interior living room area and an exterior fire escape. The setting is the Wingfield apartment in a shabby tenement building, in Saint Louis, Missouri, in the year 1937. The play is also almost unique historically, in that it first opened in Chicago, came close to flopping before Chicago newspaper theater critics verbally whipped people into going, and then played successfully for months in Chicago before finally moving to equal success in New York.
Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie (1944) was regarded when first produced as highly unusual one of the play’s four characters serves as commentator as well as participant the play itself represents the memories of the commentator years later, and hence, as he says, is not a depiction of actuality its employment of symbolism is unusual and in the very effective ending, a scrim descends in front of mother and daughter, so that by stage convention one can see but not hear them, with the result that both, but especially the mother, become much more moving and even archetypal. Analysis of Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerieīy NASRULLAH MAMBROL on Octo
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