Illusion in Tennessee Williams' Play, " The Glass Menagerie

Abstract

The Glass Menagerie" is the most excellent play written by the American playwright, Tennessee Williams. It somehow distorted Williams' life style immediately. Throughout the questioning -about everything in life specially about the human relations, Williams gets  the shock of life and puts on view the wavering shift from illusion to reality and vice versa, in a very impressive style via his dramas. Williams shows the audience that the world has a dark side which is represented by the one-dimensional society of the contemporary culture. It stands in the middle of development, abuse of ethical regulations of behaviour, dehumanized keenness to have control and close relations. This paper attempts to shed light on the theme of illusion and reality by following the character analysis approach .It starts with an introduction followed by the discussion of the play. It ends with a conclusion that sums up the findings.