The Glass Menagerie
内容简介
Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, more gracious life in Blue Mountain when she was pursued by 'gentleman callers'. Her son Tom, a poet with a job in a warehouse, longs for adventure and escape from his mother's suffocating embrace, while Laura, her shy crippled daughter, has her glass menagerie and her memories. Amanda is desperate to find her daughter a husband, but when the long-awaited gentleman caller does arrive, Laura's romantic illusions are crushed.
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作者简介
Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983) was an American playwright. Along with Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama.
After years of obscurity, he became suddenly famous with The Glass Menagerie (1944), a play that closely reflected his own unhappy family background. This heralded a string of successes, including A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), and Sweet Bird of Youth (1959). His later work attempted a new style that did not appeal to audiences, and alcohol and drug dependence further inhibited his creative output. His drama A Streetcar Named Desire is often numbered on short lists of the finest American plays of the 20th century alongside Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. Much of Williams' most acclaimed work was adapted for the cinema. He also wrote short stories, poetry, essays and a volume of memoirs. In 1979, four years before his death, Williams was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
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读书文摘
她并不疯狂，但她的生活是疯狂的。 救火梯这个名字多少有点诗意，因为所有这些高楼大厦里经常缓慢地燃烧着人们在垂死挣扎中难以扑面的火焰。 这场戏是回忆，因而是不真实的。回忆可以随便，不受任何限制。它可以省略某些细节，而对另一些细节又夸张了，这要根据它提到的事物所产生的情感价值来决定。因为回忆主要是在人的内心进行的，因此室内光线要相当昏暗而富有诗意。
照片上他是个英俊漂亮的小伙子，头戴第一次世界大战时美国步兵的军帽，情不自禁、迷人地微笑着，似乎在说：“我将永远微笑。” 汤姆：……而我给你的是表面虚假而实际真实的东西。
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