Tennessee Williams 'The Glass Menagerie'
Books | Foreign Language Study / English as a Second Language
Felicia Wulz
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,7, University of Tubingen, course: Introduction to literary studies (American literature), language: English, abstract: The subject of this work is the character of Jim O’Connor in Tennessee Williams’ play The Glass Menagerie . The text discusses the question to what extent he is a symbol of hope for all members of the Wingfield family and of whether he is a representative of the American ideology of optimism and progressivism.