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  • "The Wingfields and their gentleman caller are all dreamers." How far do you agree with this assessment of the characters in "The Glass Menagerie"?

     

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ID number:657625
Evaluation:
Published: 26.05.2004.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
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At the very beginning of the play, Tom (as the narrator) describes to the audience that it is a "memory play", hence it has:
"...dimly lighted, it is sentimental, it is not realistic."
These features prove to the audience and reader that dreams often have to do with illusions and the lack of reality, which is a central theme in "The Glass Menagerie".
TOM: "I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion."
Also, what is very evident while analyzing the characters is how their dreams often distort the reality around them. They use their dreams as tools to soothe the frustrations of…

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