The Glass Menagerie
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How many time can you read, listen to, watch this story before you stop finding new interpertations, emotions, or reasons for one more time. Timeless, yes. But so rich in memory of a world that once was. The readers were perfect. I felt I was in the room with them. This is one story that could have used a sequel... :)maybe not.
Their loneliness and unfinished dreams haunt the characters in Tennessee Williams's "The Glass Menagerie." The domineering mother, whose husband left her because he fell in love with "long distance,'' the aspiring son, a writer caged by his mother's grip, the young girl crippled by her own insecurities reveal a story of great dysfunction of trapped feelings and repression. The play is wonderfully performed and poetic. Jessica Tandy was superb as the overbearing Amanda whose mission is to have her daughter Laura, played by Julie Harris, married by a gentleman caller. And Tom, carrying the weight of the family on his shoulders, anger and repression was masterfully captured by Montgomery Cliff. The one moment of truth came in the form of the gentleman caller whose candor and honesty allowed Laura to see she has been caged by her own mind.