Family Dysfunction in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie

Family Dysfunction in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie

Author: Dedria Bryfonski

Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC

Published: 2013-01-22

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 0737763809

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Tennessee Williams' 1944 play The Glass Menagerie centers around a family of three, Tom, Laura, and Amanda Wingfield, exploring what it means to share a household with people whose individual psychological eccentricities threaten to overwhelm the whole. Told retroactively in the format of a memory play, the protagonist, Tom, an aspiring poet by night and warehouse worker by night, introduces the audience to the conditions which led him to abandon his family in pursuit of his independence. This informative edition explores the themes of family dysfunction in Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie, providing readers with a critical look at the intersection of literature and sociology. The book includes an examination of Williams' life and influences and takes a hard look at key ideas related to the play, such as the role of guilt in family relationships and the breakdown of the American dream. Readers are also offered contemporary perspectives on family dysfunction through the discussion of toxic or overbearing parents and the effects of alcoholism on families.


Family Dysfunction in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie

Family Dysfunction in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie

Author: Dedria Bryfonski

Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC

Published: 2013-01-22

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 0737763795

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Tennessee Williams' 1944 play The Glass Menagerie centers around a family of three, Tom, Laura, and Amanda Wingfield, exploring what it means to share a household with people whose individual psychological eccentricities threaten to overwhelm the whole. Told retroactively in the format of a memory play, the protagonist, Tom, an aspiring poet by night and warehouse worker by night, introduces the audience to the conditions which led him to abandon his family in pursuit of his independence. This informative edition explores the themes of family dysfunction in Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie, providing readers with a critical look at the intersection of literature and sociology. The book includes an examination of Williams' life and influences and takes a hard look at key ideas related to the play, such as the role of guilt in family relationships and the breakdown of the American dream. Readers are also offered contemporary perspectives on family dysfunction through the discussion of toxic or overbearing parents and the effects of alcoholism on families.


Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie

Author: Harold Bloom

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 0791093492

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Premiering in 1944, The Glass Menagerie was Tennessee Williams's first popular success. Today the play is considered one of Williams's masterpieces and is frequently performed. This updated volume is an essential resource for those seeking to deepen their appreciation of this fascinating character study. Book jacket.


A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

Author: Peter Nichols

Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.

Published: 1967

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 9780573619267

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The play centres on a British couple, Bri and Sheila, who are struggling to save their marriage whilst trying to raise their only child, a small girl named Josephine, who has cerebral palsy. She uses a wheelchair and is nonverbal, which her parents see as unable to communicate. Caring for her has occupied nearly every moment of her parents' lives since her birth, taking a heavy toll on their marriage. Sheila gives Josephine as much of a life as she can, while Bri wants the child institutionalised and has begun to entertain chilling fantasies of killing himself and Josephine.


A House Not Meant to Stand: A Gothic Comedy

A House Not Meant to Stand: A Gothic Comedy

Author: Tennessee Williams

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 2008-04-17

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 0811226352

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The spellbinding last full-length play produced during the author's lifetime is now published for the first time. Christmas 1982: Cornelius and Bella McCorkle of Pascagoula, Mississippi, return home one midnight in a thunderstorm from the Memphis funeral of their older son to a house and a life literally falling apart--daughter Joanie is in an insane asylum and their younger son Charlie is upstairs having sex with his pregnant, holy-roller girlfriend as the McCorkles enter. Cornelius, who has political ambitions and a litany of health problems, is trying to find a large amount of moonshine money his gentle wife Bella has hidden somewhere in their collapsing house, but his noisy efforts are disrupted by a stream of remarkable characters, both living and dead. While Williams often used drama to convey hope and desperation in human hearts, it was through this dark, expressionistic comedy, which he called a "Southern gothic spook sonata," that he was best able to chronicle his vision of the fragile state of our world.


The Red Devil Battery Sign

The Red Devil Battery Sign

Author: Tennessee Williams

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9780811210478

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This book is William's symbol for the military-industrial complex and all the dehumanizing trends it represents from mindless cocktail party chatter to bribery of officials to assassination plots directed against those who won't play the game, to attempted coups by right-wing zealots.


The Magic Tower and Other One-act Plays

The Magic Tower and Other One-act Plays

Author: Tennessee Williams

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9780811219204

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This new volume gathers some of Williams' most exuberant early work and includes one-acts that he would later expand to powerful full-length dramas, including "The Pretty Trap," a cheerful take on "The Glass Menagerie," and "Interior: Panic," a stunning precursor to "A Streetcar Named Desire."