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Seminar in Film and Theatre Comprehensive Final
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Laura Wingfield is a physically and emotionally crippled young lady. Because of her
extreme shyness, due to her belief that everyone notices her “slight defect”, Laura has withdrawn
herself from the world (Williams 19). Despite the weight of her own problems, she displays a
compassion, as with the tears she sheds over Tom’s unhappiness (Williams 26). Laura has the
fewest lines in The Glass Menagerie, which contributes to her aura of selfishness. Yet she is the
axis of the play around which the plot turns, and the most prominent symbols – blue roses, the
glass unicorn, the entire glass menagerie – all in some sense represent her. Laura’s personality
and self-persona is as delicate as a glass figurine. Laura
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