The Glass Menagerie is described as more of a memory play which is how Tennessee Williams has portrayed. His directions in the play have gone into great details in explaining the settings and the moods he desired for the play. It is a little unusual for a playwright such as Williams to have provided such specific and detailed versions in his script but he surely had a clear image in wanting to be sure about presenting it the way he wanted to in keeping with his imagination. Williams has set the play during a particular period in history and the character of Tom clearly indicates about the time and significance of the moods as prevalent during the period. Williams has portrayed that as the world turns around, people have the tendency to look around their lives and imagine it as a world of dreams while others may look at it as a w
orld of reality. Such flow of imagination permits them to find escape routes from reality in coping with problems of everyday life. The play poses different aspects in regard to how the Wingfields manage to make an escape into their world of happiness. The author has expressed a lot of escapism by way of wishful thinking, fantasies and a life that is equally good away from home. Williams has shown how that perfect life always evades Laura, In the eyes of other strangers shes terribly shy and lives in a world of her own and those things make her seem a little peculiar to people outside the house. (Pg. 1592). This quotation from the book clearly depicts the way Laura is different as compared to other people. She is hence shown as constantly being around her glass collections in filling the void that her loneliness created for her.