Drama the Family Drama All Term Paper

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Still, the thwarted desires of Emily have more of a sense of inevitability, and thus seem less tragic than the willed and possibly preventable actions of the heroines of the "Doll's House" and "Trifles."

However, perhaps the least functional and most distorted family is the family without a father at the helm at all, that of "The Glass Menagerie," where Tom functions as the breadwinner and quasi-husband to this mother Amanda and quasi-father figure to his sister Laura. As strange as the surreal drama of this family may seem, it suggests that without any conventional family dynamics even more chaos ensues than in the aforementioned nuclear families.
Like all of the family plays, "The Glass Menagerie" ends with the main protagonist's flight from the family -- with the slamming of the home's door, the only way he can break away. But he leaves not for death or prison, or even to uncertain job prospects like Nora for Tom is a man -- although, like Nora, he leaves dependants behind, whom unlike Nora's children, may become destitute because of his choice of freedom over family......

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