The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams is a play about a small family, the Wingfields, growing up in a small apartment in St. Louis. The main character and narrator, Tom, is an unhappy man working at a factory. Tom is forced to stay home in order to pay for his mother and "crippled" sister Laura. Tom and his mother fight almost constantly the entire movie. This leads him to enough rage to leave his home, abandoning his family. The only thing that happens in the movie is a man coming over for dinner, who Mrs. Wingfield tries to set up with Laura. Plot gets a 2/5 star.
Acting in the Glass Menagerie was an element that really was done well. Amanda Wingfield was played perfectly, she talks the entire movie. By about midway through the movie she should be strangled for how annoying her voice gets. Not only Amanda, but also Tom, you can really feel Tom's desire to get out of his house. He almost sounds suicidal during the movie because he shows true hatred for his current life. Acting gets 4/5 stars.
The overall direction that this movie took compared to what was expected after reading it is very intriguing to analyze. It was anticipated that Mrs. Wingfield would be a very, very, talkative women. However, I don't think it could have been expected that she could be THAT talkative. It was very hard to sit through the first section of this movie. Another odd direction this play took was how it portrayed Laura, Tom's 'crippled' sister. She is a very awkwardly shy girl who has a brace on her leg. She seems to have some kind of mental illness as well. I did not think that Laura would be played like that. I thought she would be more physically impaired than mentally. The director had other intentions however.
Acting in the Glass Menagerie was an element that really was done well. Amanda Wingfield was played perfectly, she talks the entire movie. By about midway through the movie she should be strangled for how annoying her voice gets. Not only Amanda, but also Tom, you can really feel Tom's desire to get out of his house. He almost sounds suicidal during the movie because he shows true hatred for his current life. Acting gets 4/5 stars.
The overall direction that this movie took compared to what was expected after reading it is very intriguing to analyze. It was anticipated that Mrs. Wingfield would be a very, very, talkative women. However, I don't think it could have been expected that she could be THAT talkative. It was very hard to sit through the first section of this movie. Another odd direction this play took was how it portrayed Laura, Tom's 'crippled' sister. She is a very awkwardly shy girl who has a brace on her leg. She seems to have some kind of mental illness as well. I did not think that Laura would be played like that. I thought she would be more physically impaired than mentally. The director had other intentions however.