Social Norms In Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

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The Glass Menagerie focuses on the roles, the social norms and ideas of the 1940s. But Williams wrote the characters as living in their own fantasies and failing to realize the realities of their lives. By inverting the archetype of "Cinderella", Williams is demonstrating that in real life, people don’t always get what they want, and it doesn’t end up “happily ever after”.
In The Glass Menagerie, we follow the lives of three characters: Tom, Amanda and Laura that live in small apartment complex set in St. Louis. As Amanda is being a single mother. Since her husband went to go and travel the world, Williams wrote Amanda Wingfield as the Stepmother and the Godmother of the play, but he also made the personality of Amanda is full of paradoxes.