6/30/2023 0 Comments The glass menagerie book review![]() ![]() Laura’s nickname “Blue Roses,” a mis-hearing of “pleurosis,” also links her to Rose. Williams was very close with his elder sister Rose, who was delicate and supposedly mentally ill. Williams’s mother, Evelina, had been a Southern belle, and his father was both tyrannical and frequently absent. ![]() Williams’s real name is Thomas, or Tom: “Tennessee” comes from his father’s home state. ![]() The Glass Menagerie is deeply autobiographical in many ways. But the history that most clearly impacts The Glass Menagerie is Tennessee Williams own personal history. Jim mentions the Chicago Word’s Fair of 1934, an exhibition symbolizing the promise of American industry and the possibility of escape. The Great Depression of the 1930s deeply affected the United States economically as well as psychologically. ![]()
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