The play and the movie The Glass Menagerie that is written by Tennessee Williams and directed by Paul Newman has strong autobiographical elements, featuring characters based on his family, especially his sister Laura, which is mentally fragile. There are some similarities between the play and the movie. First, the movie and the play had the same amount of characters with no extra or missing ones. Second, both forms of the story occurred in the same setting which is in St. Louis in 1937. Third. both had the same problems and conflicts. For example, one of the conflicts is where Tom's inside conflict of being torn between his want to satisfy his fantasies and his awareness of others expectations to his mom and sister is vital to the play as …show more content…
Furthermore, sounds were calm and nice to show how optimistic
Laura gets when she talks about her collection. Music had a great effect on the audience allowing them to understand the scene’s mood. The portrayal of Laura’s character in the movie was true to the picture we imagined her in the text, because she was revealed to be fragile, sensitive, and delicate in the text, exactly like the movie. also, she was calm and not so talkative in both forms that the story was presented in. Hesitation overpowers Laura and effects her actions, that was clearly shown in the movie as well. Her actions and reactions in the book were also expressed similarly in the movie. The play conveyed a simple and poor settings as they lived in a very ordinary apartment, as no other places were acted in. That was clearly shown in the movie as well. As for the time of the play, it was running in the same time zone that the movie was presented in. there were some memories that haunted the characters, Amanda is haunted by the memory of her previous husband. She fears that her son Tom might end up becoming just like his father. Also, she always brings up how she received 17 gentlemen callers at her young age, comparing her