The Glass Menagerie

The Glass Menagerie: Short Answer Response

In the play, The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, the author's use of descriptive diction and setting detail develops the dark and disgruntled setting of the scene. Williams describes the scene to have a "dark, grim rear wall of the Wingfield tenement", by the use of setting detail (Williams 3). The setting of the scene is seen to be dark and grim. The author helps the reader visualize this by using setting detail to describe the scene. Williams describes the building to be "flanked on both sides by dark, narrow alleys which run into murky canyons of tangled clotheslines, garbage cans, and the sinister latticework of neighboring fire escapes", by his use of descriptive diction (Williams 3). The imagery built of the tenements from the description expresses the setting of the scene to be dark. The author uses diction such as dark, murky, and sinister depicting the scene to be dreary and disgruntled. Tennessee Williams used descriptive diction and setting detail to develop the dark and disgruntled setting of the scene in the opening stage directions in scene one.

The Glass Menagerie: Short Answer Response #2

In the play, The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, the author's use of descriptive diction and setting detail develops the perfect and calming setting of the scene. Williams describes the scene "Across the alley from us was the Paradise Dance Hall", by the use of setting detail (Williams 39). The setting of the scene represents perfection and happiness. The author helps the reader visualize this by using setting detail to describe the scene to be complete happiness. Williams describes the Dance Hall to "turn slowly about and filter the dusk with delicate rainbow colors", by his use of descriptive diction. The imagery built of Paradise Dance Hall from the description expresses the setting of the scene to be soft and dreamy. The author uses diction such as delicate and rainbow allowing the scene to set a calming and hopeful mood. Tennessee Williams used descriptive diction and setting detail to develop the perfect and hopeful setting of the scene.