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The Glass Menagerie Written Coursework The Glass Menagerie is a personal play full of remorse. Tom, as an unreliable narrator and the main character of the play, shows two layers of the story. One layer is his memory that is delivered as the basic storyline, while the other layer is his ostinato-like emotion underlies all of the memories of his mother Amanda and his sister Laura. Tom’s opening and the ending monologues show the foundation of all of the stories: penitence. However, this foundation is not apparent until the last scene, where Tom leads himself to the memory of him finally making the decision to leave the family; plus the monologue at the end, in an almost illusionary reality, where Tom slightly broken down by his memory and shows his penitence of the family. Thus I, acting as Tom, chose the scene 7 plus the monologue to show the most well-staged part of the show, where the second layer is shown and flows it into the audience’s mind and enriches their memori...

Introduction: 1. The introduction of the play 2. Tom's regret 3. The choice of the scenes Body paragraphs: Literary analysis: The play is a memory The play thus focus more on the emotion Discuss the targeted emotion in the play How Tom is irritated and leave the family The angry builds up By words Amanda says Maybe talk about a little bit how their tension builds up through time, in other scenes Further analysis of the regret and memory The meaning of the ending monologue, with quotes "attempting to find in motion, what was lost in space." The perfume shop Phantom Laura Running to a bar "For nowadays the world is lit by lightings" "And so goodbye" Performance: The choice of music Bc it is an emotional play, the same feeling (regret and sadness) is displayed throughout the whole show no matter what scene it is The sadness and the regret is the foundation and the bass of the all emotions in the memory----they se...

Following the suggestions, we made some changes. The biggest change is that we replaced part of the Tom's ending monologue by using an Amanda's monologue. We also changed the blocking to fully show the cast members to the audience in the ending monologue to emphasize the essential of the play as a memory. There are some subtle changes, too. For example, we changed the placements of some props and added music to specify the emotion of the scenes. As individuals, we also worked on the movements. As Tom, I tried not to turn or sway. We changed the monologue in the end mainly because we cannot change the original product. However, we did find a valid and persuasive Amanda monologue in the end. It is about how Amanda had 17 gentlemen callers and married Tom's father. This monologue is going after Tom's line "...in my father's footsteps, attempting to find what was lost in space. I travelled around a great deal." This heartbreaking monologue about how Tom...

I received many feed backs that saying we did fine in expressing the emotion, and I think the communication between me and Amanda is good. I think this is because we put the lines and the reactions together, which makes us speak more like the characters in the book, and talk more normally. Despite the communication part, I think the emotion change and the message that needs to be conveyed in the monologue is absent. Without communicating, the monologue is talking to the self. I think I did not know the character well enough. I know Tom is regret to the family, but I do not know the scale of this regret. When he started feeling regret? The question will be crucial for the transition between the last scene and the monologue that follows. I need to deeper analyze the lines in the monologue, especially the “for nowadays the world is lit by lighting.” Does Tom want to leave Laura behind or no? In addition, I received feed backs that I did not do well in term of the blocking. I received...