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The Value of Literature

e our own destiny. Tennessee William's portrayal of Amanda Wingfield's children Tom and Laura in The Glass Menagerie are prime examples of how one must choose one's own destiny. Tom soon tires of supporting his manipulative mother and fragile sister Amanda. He cannot stand working any long in the factory. Eventually he is fired for writing a poem on the lid of a shoe-box (Perrine 1001). Like his father Tom is pushed away from his mother. He ends the play ironically saying that he too has fallen in love with long distance. Yet Williams indicates that although Tom has been able to escape the hum-drum life of the factory and family, he is haunted by the fragile beauty of his sister Laura. Crippled, she is shown as physically unable to escape. It is through collecting little glass animals that she is able to transcend the limitations of this life. Laura is both freed and restricted by her escape into the imaginary world of her glass menagerie. Stumbling upon bits of "colored glass" reminds Tom of his sister and her "shattered rainbow

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