Essay on Escape Mechanisms in The Glass Menagerie -- Glass Menagerie e

flight of steps Mechanisms in The Glass Menagerie In Tennessee Williams play, The Glass Menagerie, each contribution attempts to escape the real humanness by creating their own realness. Laura hides from the world by magnifying her illness. Tom convinces himself that his needs supersede the needs of his family. Amanda focuses almost altogether on the past - when she saw herself as a desirable southern belle. Even Jim focus his hopes on recapturing his good old high crop days. Each character transposes their difficult situations into shadows of the truth. Laura, our fragile daughter-figure, finds herself escaping life at every turn. She induces sickness in her typing class and even as the human being Caller awaits her in the livingroom. Unable to deal with those difficulties, Laura goes to the zoo and walks aimlessly roughly the city to waste time. Frightened of interacting with people, she looks to her collection of glass animals as a place of secure acceptance. Laura clin gs to the fear that she is strange and crippled though she herself exacerbates the reality of that. Magnifying ...