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Appearance Versus Reality in Tennessee Williams The glaze Menagerie In any Tennessee Williams lick, nothing is as it seems. Everything represents more(prenominal) than itself. Williams creative use of symbols creates a drama that far exceeds the apparent or surface level. Williams himself admits that art is make out of symbols the way your body is made out of the vital tissue, and that symbols are nothing but the natural talking to of drama . . . , the purest language of plays . . . Sometimes it would take paginate after tedious page of exposition to put across an idea that could be said with an fair game or a gesture on the lighted stage (Demastes 174). The reviewer must engage not only what appears to be just a needed prop or dialogue, but also the reader has to forge beyond the obvious to understand the full impact of the symbols Williams uses. He controls either aspect of his plays by giving very precise stage directions. He is the god of his work. He directs every aspec t as if he is alarmed to turn lose any control unless it becomes something else than he wills it to be. In The Glass Menagerie, Williams uses many symbols that cannot fully be retained by the reader in just one reading of the play. The Glass Menagerie is a play about a dysfunctional family during the 1930s and how they survive in their admit world of reality. Even the characters themselves are symbols of a deeper meaning for example, Amanda Wingfields name itself is revealing. Amanda contains the pronounce man, and she has to play the role of the man and the woman of the house since the father tatterdemalion the family long ago. Close examination of the last name Wingfield gives the reader special clues. The Wingfields are actually taking life as it comes to them, or, in... ...orks CitedDemastes, William D. Realism and the American Dramatic Tradition. Tuscaloosa, AL U of Alabama P, 1996.Kolin, Philip. Tennesse Williams A Guide to look for and Performance. Westport, CT Greenwo od, 1998.Scanlan, Tom. Family, Drama, and American Dreams. Westport, CT Greenwood, 1978.Sievers, W. David. Freud on Broadway, A History of psychoanalysis and the American Drama. New York Hermitage House, 1995.Weales, Gerald. Tennessee Williams 1914-. Contemporary Literary Cristicism. 21 Vols. Ed. Dedria Bryfonski and Phyllis Carmel Mendelson.DetroitGale,1978.471.Williams, Tennessee. The Glass Menagerie. The Bedford insane asylum to Literature Reading, Thinking, Writing. 5th ed. Ed. Michael Meyer. Boston Bedford/St. Martins, 1999. 1864-1908.Work ConsultedWilliams. Edwina Dakin. Remember Me to Tom. New York Putman, 1963.