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challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
The apartment... is entered by a fire escape, a structure whose name is a touch of accidental poetic truth, for all of these huge buildings are always burning with the slow and implacable fires of human desperation.
The story of a dysfunctional family (very dysfunctional). As with other Williams' work, quietly and tender, beautiful writing.
Amanda wants her children to be happy and successful (whilst living the life she imagines for them) as she cannot bring herself to forget her grandiose, idealised past.
Tom is a poet stuck in a warehouse job (his mother makes him want to run off like his father did).
Amanda: Go, then! Go the moon - you selfish dreamer!
Tom:I didn't go to the moon, I went much further - for time is the longest distance between two places.
Laura is quiet and shy, nervous and mostly just interested in her glass menagerie of animal figurines,
Moderate: Classism, Racism, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Ableism, and Abandonment
Minor: Mental illness and Racial slurs
Most of these are treated as negative things, not positive (apart from mental illness - although negative attitudes are displayed by some characters, the play itself is more sympathetic).
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