Parallel Themes in the Plays, The Glass Menagerie and A...

In the plays The Glass Menagerie and A Raisin in the Sun, both tried to soak up the dreams they all had envisioned. The hardships of life and trying to get that dream can be a struggle. In both plays reality was a major factor of disrupting them from pushing towards it. In a Raisin in the Sun it was Prejudice and being black people. In The Glass Menagerie it was probably Laura the disabled sister and daughter. The Glass Menagerie and A Raisin in the sun are similar in ways of how they live and differences in generation. The Glass Menagerie is a non-working class family, the father worked to support the family. In A Raisin in the Sun almost everyone worked to keep up with the household. Amanda is the character who revolves around†¦show more content†¦Both beneatha and Laura have suitors. Mama would like for her family to know and learn values and heritage not money, even though it is sometimes needed. In Amanda’s case she is more concerned of her daughter Laura. Amanda also wants Laura to see what she’s experienced by her husband tom walking out and she needs a man that would not do what her fathers done. Mama wants beneatha to see through her upbringing, how she was raised growing up and to respect it. Amanda contrast herself with Laura by her glamorous youth and feeding her hope of that youth to Laura. In comparison to tom and Walter, tom may have intentionally hurt his family by leaving them. Walter is caring but doesn’t realize that he’s hurting the family with his obsession for getting money or becoming rich. He believes that money will solve all the problems. Even though Lena his mother finds dreams to be important not material wealth Walter still does wrong and disappoints her. He used the insurance money received for their deceased father for a liquor store. Similarly tom in Menagerie took the money for the electricity bill as his cash to leave the family. Comparing the two mothers mama is more of a nurturer not that Amanda doesn’t nurture her kids but in a more nagging way, she is more overprotective. Also Amanda has a hard time seeing Laura for who she really is (disabled) similarly to mama and beneatha notShow MoreRelatedBrief Survey of American Literature3339 Words   |  14 Pagesnovel The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885) Henry James (1843-1916), master of psychological realism Writer of Daisy Miller (1879), The Portrait of a Lady (1881), The Wings of the Dove (1902), The Ambassadors (1903), The Golden Bowl (1904) International themes: Contrasting American and European cultures The first to use Third-person limited point of viewç ¬ ¬Ã¤ ¸â€°Ã¤ º ºÃ§ § °Ã¦Å"䎪 Ã¨ §â€ Ã¨ §â€™, â€Å"center of consciousness† American Naturalism American Naturalism Subject Matter of Naturalism: Subject Matter of Naturalism: Selected