Like Laura, Rose dropped out of school. However, instead of staying home after dropping out, Edwina sent Rose to a boarding school. While away at school, Rose began to struggle with her mental health.
Over the course of ten years, Rose suffered through a number of nervous breakdowns and was eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia. Before her official diagnosis, though, Rose made her debut into society and fell in love with a man who did not reciprocate her feelings— not unlike what happens to Laura in the play.
She was admitted to St. In , Rose received one of the first performed prefrontal lobotomies. A few months after the procedure, Williams began to write the first draft of what would become The Glass Menagerie.
Tom is often considered to represent Williams himself. Once The Glass Menagerie opened, Taylor was nearly universally praised by critics and colleagues. It made me weep," lyricist Fred Ebb said. Actress Patricia Neal deemed Taylor's Amanda "the greatest performance I have ever seen in all my life.
Taylor's celebrated performance helped cement The Glass Menagerie 's rarefied reputation. Looking back on her work in the production, Williams said , "There was a radiance about her art which I can compare only to the greatest lines of poetry, and which gave me the same shock of revelation, as if the air about us had been momentarily broken through by light from some clear space around us.
The theatre is ripe with superstitions and lore. One story around The Glass Menagerie centers on the seemingly impossible standard set by Taylor. Even decades later, her performance is the one by which all other Amanda Wingfields are judged. And while there have been seven revivals of the show since its initial bow, none of her successors has won the Tony Award.
The curse suggests that because Taylor didn't win the honor for that role—the Tonys were not established until a year after Taylor's run—no one will. Cherry Jones scored a nomination in , and Sally Field did the same in But neither took home the Tony. In , The Glass Menagerie became his first produced screenplay. The perturbed playwright later declared this a " dismal error. And this makes for painful diffusion of the play's obvious poignancy," The New York Times 's critic Bosley Crowther wrote.
In the play, the plot to woo a suitor fails. Tom decides to move out, and his sister is left without hope of finding a husband. But Warner Bros. He wrote to Rapper, "I think it is all right to suggest the possibility of someone else coming.
And that 'someone else,' remaining as insubstantial as an approaching shadow in the alley which appears in conjunction with the narrative line, 'The long delayed but always expected something that we live for'—it strikes me as constituting a sufficiently hopeful possibility for the future, symbolically and even literally, which is as much as the essential character of the story will admit without violation.
But that wasn't enough for Warner Bros. Against Williams's wishes and behind his back, the studio reached out to screenwriter Peter Berneis to give them the happy ending they wanted. Berneis created a second suitor named Richard, reasoning that Laura's tale could go from one of woe to inspiration. At his mother's insistence, he brings a friend from work home as a possible suitor for Laura.
The suitor, went to high school with Laura. He is the only boy that she ever had a crush on. The evening turns into a disaster. After Jim leaves, Amanda scolds Tom, who runs off to join the merchant marine shortly after that disastrous night. But, as Tom tells the audience, he was never able to leave his guilt behind.
So, in the end, none of them escaped from the traps in which they were caught. While The Glass Menagerie is one of Tennessee Williams's most popular plays, it is also one of his least characteristic. The play is fragile and poignant.
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