On Anti-interpretation in Endgame Man Is Unable to Change the Miserable Life——Analysis of the Arrangement of Four Characters in The Glass MenagerieOn Anti-interpretation in Endgame Man Is Unable to Change the Miserable Life —Analysis of the Arrangement of Four Characters in The Glass Menagerie
彭恒;
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Tennessee Williams is considered as one of the most important American playwrights since World War Ⅱ. The Glass Menagerie is his first successful drama, which describes a tragic situation of family and means to say that Man is unable to change the miserable life, no matter whatever means he try. This essay focuses on the analysis of the arrangement of the four main characters:Laura, Amanda, Jim and Tom to reveal the theme. Laura is fragile. Amanda is brave. Jim is vital. Tom is sensible. And all of them develop and try the different means to struggle against life, but fail tragically. With the evidence, the paper comes to conclusion naturally that Man is unable to change the miserable life, and he dooms to fail.
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- ①Williams Tenessee,“The Glass Menagerie”,The Study of AmericanLiterature,ed.Luo xiaoyun(Diss.SISU,2007)64.
- ②Benjamin Nelson,“The Man and His Work,”Ivan Obolensky Inc(1961):304.
- ③Williams Tenessee,78.
- ④Ibid.,60.
- ⑤Ibid.,64.
- ⑥James L.Rowland,“Tennessee’s Two Amandas,”Research Studies35.4(1967):331-40.
- ⑦Ibid.,61.
- ⑧Joseph K.Davis,“Landscapes of the Dislocated Mind I Williams‘The GlassMenagerie’,”A Tribute,ed.Jac Tharpe(University Press:Mississippi,1977)192-206.
- ⑨Williams Tenessee,76.