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Seeing The Glass Menagerie was like stumbling on a flower in a junkyard -- Williams had pushed language and character to the front of thestage as never before.--Arthur Miller
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Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, more gracious life in Blue Mountain when she was pursued by 'gentleman callers'. Her son Tom, a poet with a job in a warehouse, longs for adventure and escape from his mother's suffocating embrace, while Laura, her shy crippled daughter, has her glass menagerie and her memories. Amanda is desperate to find her daughter a husband, but when the long-awaited gentleman caller does arrive, Laura's romantic illusions are crushed.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Though most will pip for "Streetcar" as Williams' finest hour, I'd go for "The Glass Menagerie", a dark tale with great narration and stage direction that reads like lyrical prose. In the gothic genre, you will find better examples of the key themes ("Streetcar" is an obvious example), but there is something truly haunting about this play, something that will have you sympathizing with Tom and his odd family. A great read, even if you're not studying the genre.
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Everything is great about this book, published, content, price and shipping. Dislike to the previous comment, i highly recommend this book to you
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14 Feb 2012
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i ordered this with all my other books when i was ordering books for my classes. im taking a theater appreciation class so purchasing play books were mandatory. i had ordered 8 books including this one. they all had arrived a couple days to 2 weeks after placing my order EXCEPT this one. it took about 4 weeks for this book to get to me. by that time i had failed a quiz and study guide i was supposed to fill out because of the missing book. i am not sure if something happened along the delivery, but i was very mad. it seemed, to me, that the people running this place are very slow at sending out products. maybe someone just forgot to send my product out, but that is still unacceptable. people are always expecting the best service possible when purchasing things. after contacting the people who i had bought the book from, they told me i was only allowed to return the book if it was in original form and what not. but i laughed and told them i havent even recieved the book in the first place! so after that the book took barely a week to get to me. funny how when i first ordered the it 3 weeks passed without seeing the book, but when i asked for a return because the book was no where to be seen it arrived in just a week.
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