Sometimes the world can really wear you down. The stressors of the real world can sometimes erode even the most dedicated person. Sometime the only option is to escape, which can be a good idea in stressful situations. One play that typifies this behaviour is The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams. In this play, the main characters all have means of escape, each method being more strange and unusual than the one previously introduced to …showed first 75 words of 1058 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1058 total…ady for a more productive time. If you don't want to face your fears then running away is always an option, although not always the best choice. If you know what you are really running from and your sense of reality is in check then absence of short duration is perfectly okay, and this is one of the overall messages intended by the Author to be transferred to us by reading and understanding the script.