Glass Menagerie - Authors and Texts
- Literature
Notes for students
This unit provides detailed resources on Tennessee Williams's play. You will be taken through the play scene by scene with a series of carefully constructed questions supported by suggested answers and a glossary.
- The questions
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You will be guided through each scene by questions which focus on important aspects such as characterisation, structure and stagecraft. You can print out the questions sheet - but if possible complete the page online, with the play beside you. You can then print out your answers or save them to amend later. Either way they will really help you study and revise the play in detail. If you are not sure what to do, click the help link at the top of the page.
- The answers - and more questions!
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The answers provide helpful prompts but you will also be asked to consider the more complex aspects of the work. For example, how does Williams makes a great play out of the unreliability of memory? How does he cause the audience's sympathies to shift? This means that you will often be left with further questions to consider! It's important at this stage of your studies that you are aware of alternatives; there is always more than one way to 'read' a text. It is likely that the examination question will expect you to consider these alternatives and avoid being one-sided - if you don't do so you cannot expect to gain high marks!
- The writing frames
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The writing frames give you help with a very specific problem: how to construct a coherent essay. Chief examiners' reports constantly state that less successful candidates have difficulty writing an examination answer. Terms like 'lacking in focus', 'repetitive', and 'based on skimpy knowledge' indicate the need for better examination technique as well as a better grasp of the text. The writing frames provide easy-to-use guidance on answering the question - work though them (preferably on a computer) and soon you'll be able to do this all by yourself!
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