The Glass Menagerie

The play "The Glass Menagerie" is a memory and as such, is different from other plays we have read in the duration of this course. Instead of having a mainstream array of characters, with each scene beginning with a different scenario, it has a narrator that is also a character in the play who takes the reader into the play. There were really no heightened moments, although there were problems that required solutions. On the surface, there was  no villain/antagonist or protagonist, unlike most of the plays we've read because all the characters were in the same circle( having to find solution to the same problem from different angles). This makes it very difficult for a reader to analyze a particular character without deeply or abstractly examining the character and his/her link to the story. Although the scenes and characters were very vivid, the play seemed very unrealistic. The author wrote the  book out of true events and memories he had that might not necessarily be true and so we (readers) are cajoled into having a picture of these events in  the way he had portrayed them, be it believable or not which is why they were no distinctions in the characters being antagonist or protagonist. He (the author) might have intended to share what past he had with the idea of an unhappy family in poverty. However, it seemed like he did not write the play for it to be psychoanalyzed but simply to tell the story.