The Need to be Free The Glass Menagerie, written by Tennessee Williams, is known world wide because of its extraordinary writing styles, and the simplicity, which is also complicated. Through the years, The Glass Menagerie has achieved a firmly established place in the Canon of American plays, yet the text of the play is many times distorted from what Williams wanted them to be. Some reasons why are because of the usage of allusions, symbolism, …showed first 75 words of 1100 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1100 total…m finally escapes his boring life, but it comes with the consequence of leaving the helpless Laura alone. Each character in this play share the same theme in their roles, Freedom or Escape, but only one actually achieves full Freedom, Tom. To achieve freedom is hard, and only a few accomplish it. Escape is the main theme of the play and many people relate to the situations because they too have the need to escape.