Style is the novelist's choice of words and phrases, and how the novelist arranges these words and phrases in sentences and paragraphs. Style allows the author to shape how the reader experiences the work. For example, one writer may use simple words and straightforward sentences, while another may use difficult vocabulary and elaborate sentence structures. Even if the themes of both works are similar, the differences in the authors' styles make the experiences of reading …showed first 75 words of 1107 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1107 total… is to recapture the past. In the end, the menagerie proves to be symbolic of the family's shattered dreams and failures. For the Wingfield's their menial existence is immortalized in glass, and they are restricted by the boring repetitiveness of their lives during the depression. All the characters as a whole have tried to escape the harsh reality, yet in every case they manage to fail, and in turn shatter their dreams like glass.