So I am taking a class right now about plays and we're reading a lot of plays I read in high school and stuff... so I figured hey, why not write a throwback Thursday about the one we started with.
The Glass Menagerie was probably one of my favorite things that they made us read in high school... but in recent years I've found it kind of ridiculous. It's a weird concept for a play, all the characters are odd and its pretty bizarre overall. I thought it would be one of those plays that if I ever had to read it again, I wouldn't like it.
Actually, I feel like I like it a little bit more now. It isn't different really, but I feel like I connected to different characters differently. The only person that I could connect with in high school was Laura and that was because I felt like I was in a very similar situation to her relationship with Jim and the kiss. I couldn't relate to Tom because I refused to really pay attention to his lines because my Jim at the time was named Tom. So there was that. Also I thought the mother was crazy and Jim was such an asshole. Now I feel kind of bad for the mom and Tom also. Not Jim though, he's an asshole.
Also when I read it in High School, I thought Laura was in her own little world and she doesn't come out of that world at any time. Second time around I look at it more positively. I think at the end of the story she did accept reality, she knew she wouldn't be with Jim and that she wouldn't see him again. She knew that her mom was a crazy person and she could just kind of accept these things and move on with her life.
I just kind of thought Tom was an alcoholic the first time reading it, but this time I think he just wants to escape from his mother, and I think he wants that for Laura also. They no longer want to live in this Glass Menagerie that they are trapped in. They want to be free and no longer in this weird and wacky world.
And you kind of have to feel bad for the mom. All she talks about is her youth, she still has a picture of her husband that left on the wall. You just feel really bad for her. And yes she's crazy... to me she sounds schizophrenic which is interesting because Tennessee Williams had a schizophrenic sister. It was just all very interesting.
Overall still like it. May even like it a little better.
Byeee!
-Shannon
The Glass Menagerie was probably one of my favorite things that they made us read in high school... but in recent years I've found it kind of ridiculous. It's a weird concept for a play, all the characters are odd and its pretty bizarre overall. I thought it would be one of those plays that if I ever had to read it again, I wouldn't like it.
Actually, I feel like I like it a little bit more now. It isn't different really, but I feel like I connected to different characters differently. The only person that I could connect with in high school was Laura and that was because I felt like I was in a very similar situation to her relationship with Jim and the kiss. I couldn't relate to Tom because I refused to really pay attention to his lines because my Jim at the time was named Tom. So there was that. Also I thought the mother was crazy and Jim was such an asshole. Now I feel kind of bad for the mom and Tom also. Not Jim though, he's an asshole.
Also when I read it in High School, I thought Laura was in her own little world and she doesn't come out of that world at any time. Second time around I look at it more positively. I think at the end of the story she did accept reality, she knew she wouldn't be with Jim and that she wouldn't see him again. She knew that her mom was a crazy person and she could just kind of accept these things and move on with her life.
I just kind of thought Tom was an alcoholic the first time reading it, but this time I think he just wants to escape from his mother, and I think he wants that for Laura also. They no longer want to live in this Glass Menagerie that they are trapped in. They want to be free and no longer in this weird and wacky world.
And you kind of have to feel bad for the mom. All she talks about is her youth, she still has a picture of her husband that left on the wall. You just feel really bad for her. And yes she's crazy... to me she sounds schizophrenic which is interesting because Tennessee Williams had a schizophrenic sister. It was just all very interesting.
Overall still like it. May even like it a little better.
Byeee!
-Shannon
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