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The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams shows the struggle of twopeople to fit into society, turkey cock and Laura, and how society wouldnt accept them.They were the dreamers that were unjustly kept out and you may even go as far asto say persecuted into staying out and aloof same the other dreamers which areforced to become outcasts and not contribute to the actions of all. Tom and Laura, the two dreamers, were pushed by their mom, Amanda, to herframe of mind and the thoughts of a hard working society. They both stumbled onthe fire escape which served as a gate mien, physically and mentally. Tom had theproblem of fitting in at the warehouse were he worked, because is the warehouse in truth a place for someone like him and his mind rebelled. Lastly you can seehow society forced them to change and Laura to lose her status in identify to fitin with Jim and thats shown by the horn breaking. Tom then realizes that andleaves which causes him to change too. Tennessee Williams ar tfully depicted this. The fire escape. A downtrodden red thing off the sides of buildings displaysocieties ineffectual escape from itself. In this case it served as a passagewaybetween the real universe of discourse and the dream one that Laura and Tom were living in athome. Both somehow stumbled both physically and mentally. When Laura said Imall right. I slipped but Im all right(47). She was trying to pass to the realworld to do a real job and couldnt because of societies inability to accepther and her ways. She wasnt strong enough to make the trip by herself, butneeded the moral apply of the other dreamer in the area, which was Tom whocame running out. Tom is the one who stumbles mentally in his inability to lookat t... ...lizing that he was changing toAmandas way of thinking, so he left. upon his leaving he baffled his dreamingability everyway. It was ironic how he no longer dreamed because he felt he wasseeing the dreams in real life, as society had again forced him o ut. As you can see Tom and Laura were dreamers which were unaccepted intosociety. Laura lost her dreaming when the unicorn lost its horn and tom thenlost his upon doing the first thing he had dreamed about because he stayed thatway and didnt dream about going any higher. Ultimately Tennessee Wiliiamsmessage was that society was rigid and it forced those which did not fit themold to change into a from which was acceptable. That we killed the dreamers andare till doing it at an even jr. age. We have to Accept them with open arms if ever we are able to make it far into the future and survive.