The Glass Menagerie
Author: Williams, Tennessee
ISBN: 9780141190266
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 20 Apr 2009
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback / softback
Penguin Modern Classics presents Tennessee Williams' first successful play which has continued to win audiences over ever since
Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, more gracious life in Blue Mountain when she was pursued by 'gentleman callers'. Her son Tom, a poet with a job in a warehouse, longs for adventure and escape from his mother's suffocating embrace, while Laura, her shy crippled daughter, has her glass menagerie and her memories. Amanda is desperate to find her daughter a husband, but when the long-awaited gentleman caller does arrive, Laura's romantic illusions are crushed.
ISBN: 9780141190266
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 20 Apr 2009
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback / softback
Penguin Modern Classics presents Tennessee Williams' first successful play which has continued to win audiences over ever since
Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, more gracious life in Blue Mountain when she was pursued by 'gentleman callers'. Her son Tom, a poet with a job in a warehouse, longs for adventure and escape from his mother's suffocating embrace, while Laura, her shy crippled daughter, has her glass menagerie and her memories. Amanda is desperate to find her daughter a husband, but when the long-awaited gentleman caller does arrive, Laura's romantic illusions are crushed.
