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Indulging in Escapism
In The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams’ presents us with a Family whose lives seem to be trapped in avoiding reality instead of facing it. The play, which is much like our own lives, is constantly pointing out ways of escaping. The characters in the play each try to find there way to escape but fin ....
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.... come out. This is how Laura hi Tom faces the sad fact of working every day at the factory and having to return home every day to a family who cannot understand his problems and insecurities. He goes to the movies instead of facing his problems. He uses the movies and his dreams of going away and joining the "Union of Merchant Seamen" (Williams 264) as a way of avoiding the bitter fact that at the moment he has nothing. His dreams can come true for a time being when he is in the big dark theater, yet when he has to go home to a little apartment he has nothing to look forward to. Even w ....
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