Nerver Ending Story Vs Glass Menagerie

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The Glass Menagerie By Tennessee Williams is centered on a dream of escape, much like the song, Never Ending Story by New Found Glory. The song most relates to Tom in the play. Tom is, by far, the biggest dreamer. The song is all about dreaming, with lyrics like “Reach the stars and fly a fantasy.” Tom dreams of leaving and ‘flying his fantasy.’ In the play, Tom says, as he is dreaming, of leaving the “…over crowded urban centers of lower class population.”

Tom really dreams of leaving someday much like his father had. Tom expresses this when he tells Amanda, “…Mother, I’d be where [the father] is!” Tom dreams of leaving so desperately that he “…paid his [Merchant Marine] dues, this month instead of the light bill.” Tom wants to get away so desperately that he is willing to hurt the rest of his family, by taking money that they had earned, not done with it what he was supposed to, and using it just to fulfill his dreams of escaping.

Tom is ready to get out, be his own person, hence the fact that he took the money to pay the bills and paid for himself to go to the merchant Marines. Also the fact that he “goes to the movies,” and is gone for almost the whole day shows he is not happy at home. In the play Tom says he is “…tired of the movies,” meaning that he is ready for his own adventures. Tom is sick and tired of living with his mother and sister and having to deal with all of there stuff and confrontations. In the song it says “hidden in the lines, written on the pages is the answer…” Tom has looked at everything in his life trying to escape and find the answer, even in his poetry he tries to find the escape. For example in the play he “…retires to a cabinet of the wash room to work on poems when business is slack in the warehouse.”

Tom also loathes his mother in some way. This is most evident when Tom calls Amanda an “ugly-babbling old-witch…” When Tom d...