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Glass Menagerie
Question | Answer |
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Who wrote the Glass Menagerie play? | Tennessee Williams |
Where was Tennessee Williams born? | Columbus, Mississippi |
Why did he change his real name (Thomas Williams III) to Tennessee? | That was where his father was born |
Who was Rose and what was wrong with her? | Tennessee's sister sick with schizophrenia. Her labdomony(surgery) on her brain made her even worse |
What was wrong with Tennessee's father, Cornelius Williams? | alcoholic, gambled, never home |
How and when did Tennessee die? | In 1983 from suffocation |
How is Laura and Rose's life similar? | sisters, ill, dependable, left behind |
How is Tennessee and Tom's life alike? | Both work in a shoe factory and hate it Want to become a writer Father is absent and raised by mother Family responsibility |
VOCAB: Idolently | Lazy |
VOCAB: Tumalt | chos; confusion |
VOCAB: inwardly | towards, inner, secret |
VOCAB: stumblejohn | social mistake |
VOCAB: Faux pas | false step |
VOCAB: Pertubation | disturbed |
VOCAB: Jalopy | old car |
Symbolism of father photo | big impact, constant reminder, he doesn't care |
Symbolism of jonquils | Amanda's youth, happy and easy times |
Symbolism of Yearbook | Jim's expectations, Laura's memories |
Symbolism of unicorn | different, special, uniqueness |
Symbolism of broken horn | Laura comes to reality, realizes she's not that different |
Symbolism of movies | Tom's escape from reality |
Symbolism of fire escape | apartment is distressed and desperate, leave, trapped in implacable fires, Tom goes and leaves quickly, Laura slips because she is too dependent on family and cant leave |
Great Depression | October 29th, 1929 |
Where was the Dust Bowl and what did is affect? | Oklahoma, Kansas, and Tesax affected by severe soil and erosion(windstorms) |
How did advertisements effect the 1920's? | 1.Stereotpyes portryed woman shallow 2.wanted romance and beauty 3.focused on nurses, waitresses, and secretaries 4. perfect skin was pale with blush color |
The Spanish goverment was | hostile and corrupt |
Nationalist | Franco and Sanjurjo controlled Cadiz, Seville, and Burgos |
Republicansim | Azara, cintrolled Madrid, Barcelona, Bilba, and Valencia |
Bombing on Guernica | City destroyed during Spanish civil war Picasso painted a oicture called "Guernica" |
Hemingway's writings on the battles | "For who, the Bells Toll and "The Fifth Way" |
Expressionism | 19th century and 20th century-drawings and paintings expressed through emotions |
Expressionistic art is recognized by | vivid colors Disoration Visual exageration |
Dorthea Lane (1895-1965) | Photographer of Great Depression with her famous paintings "White ANgel Breadline" and "Migrant Mother" |
George Orwell | Author of "Homage to Catalonia" |
Edvard Munch | Painted "The Scream" |
Vincent Van Gogh | Painted "Starry Night" |
What was Laura ashamed of during high school? | The brace she wore on her leg |
What sport did Jim O'Connor play in high school? | Basketball |
How does Jim describe Laura? | An "old-fashioned" type girl |
Who is Jim engaged to? | Betty |
Which is Laura's favorite piece in the glass memnagerie? | The unicorn |
What does Laura do in her spare time? | Cares for her glass meagerie and plays records |
Where does this play take place? | St. Louis |
What is Jim's nickname for Tom? | Shakesphere |
What is Mr. Wingfield doing in the picture on the wall? | Smiling in his uniform |
Where did Laura, Jim and Tom attend school? | Soldan High School |
Laura's special theme music is? | Underlying sorrow |
Amanda tells Laura to use the moon to wish for happiness | Happiness |
Mr. Wingfield left his family for | freedom and traveling |
What is the name of their yearbook? | The Torch |
Who is Malvolio? | A stage magician |
What buisness is across the alley? | The Paradise Dance Hall |