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2nd period

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The glass menagerie takes place in a apartment in St.Luis the year 1937. Laura has a bum leg and is very unhappy with the way she is.Her brother Tom is always being nagged by there mother Amanda and is always out to the movies. In the beginning Tom and his mother get into an argument and he says some regrettable things to his mother. The next day Amanda finds out about Laura skipping class and is disappointed but not discouraged.The next morning Tom apologizes to his mother and she ask him to find a gentleman for Laura, he finds one and ask him over they have dinner but the lights go out shortly after because Tom didn't pay for the bill, he plans to get out of doge soon after the gentleman and Laura met acquaintances and talk about the past and there planed futures. She explanes she doesn't have one and they talk about it.They end up breaking a piece of her glass collection but it Turns out hes already taken and he leaves with Tom. the story ends there.

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imagery-blue roses(pg.126)
symbolism-The title ''The glass menagerie''
metaphor- ''All pretty girls are a trap,a pretty trap''(pg.86)

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by:Tennessee Williams

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Amanda Wingfield- Mother of both Tom and Laura. She worries about her children's futures always upcesing over gentlemen callers for Laura and makeing sure Tom doesn't do anything his father would

Laura Wingfield- Daughter of Amanda she has a glass collection and droped out of business collage.Walks about the park while suppose to be at school

Tom Wingfield- Son of Amanda,has a thirst for adventure but is held back by his mother and sister.

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-''Your the only young man I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present,the present the past and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it''(pg.77) This quote explanes that things defiantly won't work out if you don't plan for it.

-''All pretty girls are a trap,a pretty trap,and a man expects them to be''(pg.86) This quote explanes that the mother thinks she will chase the suitor.

-''I didn't go to the moon, I went much further for time is the longes distance between two places''(pg.137) This quote explanes that Tom has left his family just as his father did

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An apartment in St.Louis the year 1937

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After the gentleman tells Laura that she is unique and it was nothing to be ashamed of then they danced in the dark he bumps the table, and the unicorn falls and breaks its horn off what is this a symbol of?

A: it shows that Laura has finally accepted that she is different and unique.

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*Torn
*Dysfunctional
*Restrained
*Gloomy
*Gentlemen