Analytical Essay on the Play the The Glass Menagerie with citations

Analytical Essay Jagged glass spikes ripped and tore through the lines of this heart broken play. The fragments of glass pinch you as a reader each page by page, slicing your anticipation to continue reading while scraping your own emotions. In this paper I plan to show the delicateness verses the heartlessness the author has portrayed through this play with the characters Amanda, Tom, Laura and Jim. The heartbreak suffered by Laura is so real, …

…life of self-hatred and misery. I feel I connected with Laura on an emotional level through the pages. In my mind she stands beautiful, un-crippled with her dark hair shadowing her face with a glass tear drop sliding down her face. This is how this play leaves her in my mind. It is a beautifully written play of the truths of life and how things sometimes, no matter how hard you push, just won't budge.