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Tennessee Williams is well known for the use of symbols in her plays. Symbol or symbolism is when an object, a thing, a person, an animal or anything tangible represents an abstract idea. In the play The Glass Managerie, Tennessee successfully uses a variety
of symbols to show the characteristic in each character. She uses many symbols ....
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.... is a good example of
symbolism for Tom, but there is also the portrait of father.
Another example of symbolism is the portrait of father. Tom's father left the family to travel the world and never came back. In scene 7, Tom says:
I'm like my father. The bastard son of a bastard! Did younotice how he's grinning in his picture in there? And he's been absent going on sixteen years!
The above quote shows Tom wants to escape from home. he wants to be like his father, go travel the world and experience adventures and never come back. This example shows Tom wanting to escape by us ....
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