10 Questions
What is the physical setting of The Glass Menagerie play?
A small, cramped St. Louis apartment. Lower middle income neighborhood
How is Tom dressed as the play begins, and why?
Merchant marines sailor outfit; he has left his family and joined them in “present day.”
Why does Tom's speech open with a comparison of his role to that of a stage magician?
He gives reality in the pleasant disguise of illusion as opposed to a magician who gives illusions disguised as reality
What is a 'memory play'?
it is based off on memory but it’s unrealistic because memory is unreliable
Why does Tom say there is a fifth character in the play?
To include the audience as part of the play's performance.
Who is the father that abandoned his family in the play, The Glass Menagerie?
Mr. Wingfield
What do we discover about Tom's life at home in the brief first scene?
He hates it because Mom is so overbearing
What did we learn about Laura in The Glass Menagerie?
She has a crippling shyness and a limp
How is Amanda Wingfield, the mother, portrayed in The Glass Menagerie?
Cares for her children but is nitpicky and overbearing; lives in the past; constantly talks about her teenage years and gentlemen callers.
As Amanda comes up the fire escape, Laura's actions are described. What do these actions reveal about her?
She was supposed to be practicing her typewriting. That’s why she jumped up and put her glass collection away.
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