Study Literature in English notes on The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams for A-Level. Useful for revision, homework, and exam preparation in Zimbabwe.
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|a| Write a critical appreciation of the following extracts from the Gass Managerie by Tennesse William (born 1914), discuwing how dramatically effective the writer is in establishing the characters of the two uumen and the tension between them. On the dark stage the seren is lighted with the image of blue rases. |Gradually Laturi's figure hexomes apparent and the serven gres out, the masic subsides. LAURA is senfed in the delicate ivory chair at the small claw-fort table I She wears a dress of soft violet material for a kimono. Her hair is tind back frum her furchead with a ribbon. She is washing and polishing her collection of glass. Amanda appears an the fire escape steps at the saund of her accent, Loura catches her breath. thrusts the buwl of omaments away and saut hervelf attefly hefore the diagram of she rype writer keybond as though it held her syrllbound. Something has hopyoned to Amanda. It in written in her fuce as she cliwhy to the landing: a look that is grim and hope -less and little absurd. She has no one of thase cheap or initation velvery-avoking cloth coats with imitation fur collor. Her hat is five or six years old, one of those dradfud cloche hats doat twere worn in the late tuenties and she is claying an enormous black patent-deather poykstook with nickel clasp and initials. This is her full-dress outfit, the one she aunally wars to the D.A.N. Before entering she looks through the doer. She purses her lipx opens ' $A$ ' Level Literature in English Practical Contician Fage 81 82 the door. Seving her mother's eopersion LAURA touches her lips with a nerwous gesture.I LAURA: Ilello, Mother, I was - [Dre males a nervous gesture toword the chart (n) the wall. AMANDA leany againut the shut doer and stares at LAURA sitch a martyred look. 1 AMANDA: Deception? Deception? [She slowly rementes her hat and gloves. tontinuing the sweet suffering share. She lets the hot and glones fall an the floor - a bit of acting. I LAURA: |shokily| How was the DA.R. meeting'? |AMANDA slowly opens her purse and remones a dainty white handkerchief which she shakes out delicately and delicately sow hes as her lips and movrrilx.] Didn't you go to the D.A.R. mceting. Mother? AMANDA: Unintly, almont inaudibly No. - No [Then more firribly I 1 did not have the stretch - to go to the D.A.R. In fact, I did not have the courage! I wanted to find a bole in the ground and hide myself in it for ever! [She creases slewly to the wall and remover the diagrum of the …