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• The Glass Menagerie


  Is a symbol of Laura
• Glass


  • Fragile like Laura
  • Laura's method of escape
• Laura's use of the menagerie

  • To forget her momentary troubles
  • Extremely dedicated to the care of it like she wishes to be taken care of
• Tom's view of the glass animals

  Reminds him of his beloved sister
• Tom: 'Laura is like a "shattered rainbow"'
• Laura being described as a "rainbow"

  Her beauty is pure and untainted, just as a rainbow is full of brightness and love
• Tom's guilt about abandoning Laura


  She is so helpless and will struggle in life due to her fragility and inability to fend for herself in the "real world"