The Glass Menagerie 3

What theme does is it empowers a novel or story. There is a reoccurring theme throughout the play The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams. Williams uses the symbolism of the movies, the fire escape, and the nailed coffin to illustrate his theme that the harshness of reality often leads to escape. These symbols all support the theme of escape and freedom. The fire escape is always an escape for Tom when he wanted time to …

…ways include the fire escape, the coffin with the nails, and the movies. Tom’s everyday life consists of working at the warehouse and living at home. This is what Tom is running from and by leaving to the movies or going out on the fire escape is how he gets away from the problems in his life. So all of these are examples of a reoccurring theme of escape and freedom throughout the play.