The Glass Menagerie: Struggle To Fit Into Society

Part I of Essay
"The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams shows the struggle of two people to fit into society, Tom and Laura, and how society wouldn't accept them. They were the dreamers that were unjustly kept out and you may even go as far as to say persecuted into staying out and al ....

Part II of Essay
.... the sides of buildings showing societies ineffectual escape from itself. In this case it served as a passageway between the real world and the dream one that Laura and Tom were living in at home. Both somehow stumbled both physically and mentally. When Laura said “I'm all right. I slipped but I'm all right”(47). She was trying to pass to the real world to do a real job and couldn't because of societies “inability” to accept her and her ways. She wasn't strong enough to make the trip by herself, but needed the moral support of the other dream ....