Blog #3

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

Laura has always let her crippled state get this best of her. When she was in high school, she allowed for her it to affect her relationships with fellow classmates. When she would walk into class, she always felt embarrassed by the negative attention being crippled brought to her. All of her teen and young adult life has been shaped by her physical disability, allowing for her to become insecure and reserved. She has always felt different from everyone else, similar to her favorite glass menagerie, the unicorn. Laura only owned one unicorn, which stood next to the regular horses. The unicorn symbolizes Laura and her inability to fit in due to her physical defect. Similar to the unicorn and its unique horn, Laura stands out because she is crippled. She feels like a freak among the rest of society, but when the unicorn's horn was broken off, I feel that represented a change in Laura. She was no longer going to be defined by her crippled leg, and although her and Jim did not work out, he gave her the confidence she needed to make a change. Laura states," I'll just imagine he had an operation. The horn was removed to make him feel less- freakish!"(Williams, 1283). Although Laura isn't receiving an operation to fix her leg, she seems to have endured a mental transformation.  Jim has inspired to not let her condition define her life, and to make something of herself while she is still young.