 
			 
				Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, more gracious life in Blue Mountain when she was pursued by 'gentleman callers'. Her son Tom, a poet with a job in a warehouse, longs for adventure and escape from his mother's suffocating embrace, while Laura, her shy crippled daughter, has her glass menagerie and her memories. Amanda is desperate to find her daughter a husband, but when the long-awaited gentleman caller does arrive, Laura's romantic illusions are crushed.
Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983) was an American playwright. Along with Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama.
After years of obscurity, he became suddenly famous with The Glass Menagerie (1944), a play that closely reflected his own unhappy family background. This heralded a string of successes, including A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), and Sweet Bird of Youth (1959). His later work attempted a new style that did not appeal to audiences, and alcohol and drug dependence further inhibited his creative output. His drama A Streetcar Named Desire is often numbered on short lists of the finest American plays of the 20th century alongside Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. Much of Williams' most acclaimed work was adapted for the cinema. He also wrote short stories, poetry, essays and a volume of memoirs. In 1979, four years before his death, Williams was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
"....Security is a kind of death, I think, and it can come to you in a storm of royalty checks besides a kidney-shaped pool in Beverly Hill or anywhere at all that is removed from the conditions that made you an artist, if that's what you are or were or int...
評分1929年9月美国股市崩盘,一个月内跌去40%,自此全世界陷入大萧条。到1933年时,美国工业总产量和国民收入跌去一半,商品批发价下跌近三分之一,3月,失业人口来到1400万人,占劳动力的四分之一。大规模的失业大大降低了生活水平,《玻璃动物园》的故事就是在这样的背景下发生的...
評分I read this book during the winter vacations for one or two days and I found myself extremely depressed after I finished it. It is a book that keeps haunting your mind for days. It expresses the surface vivacity of life with the underlying strain of immutab...
喜歡看大師未完全成熟的劇本,從中能感觸到他們真實的呼吸。
评分田納西威廉斯,一個喜歡用gay來錶達快樂意思的劇作傢。 獨角獸的角碎掉那場戲差點看哭瞭,真是又勵誌又惆悵。
评分I cross the street, I run into the movies or a bar, I buy a drink, I speak to the nearest stranger--anything that can blow yr candles out! -for nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow yr candles and so goodbye. *uneasy*
评分天哪好像laura啊啊啊啊 這什麼玻璃心易碎性格啊 jim真是genuinely a fine gentleman。。。。。
评分這本描寫的傢庭關係要比A Streetcar Named Desire要讓我痛苦,因為Amanda對兒子女兒的束縛和期望讓人窒息,三人都在逃避現實,互相摺磨,這種傢庭關係要比Blanche的崩潰更有實感。而且Jim對自卑敏感的Laura的溫柔和善解人意之後在對其的打擊真是……令人絕望,不知道Laura最後會怎樣;還有Tom那句:People go to the movies instead of moving. 最後Tom還是選擇跟父親一樣瞭啊
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