A Play with Two Heads

A compelling character within a story not only displays unique personality traits, but can do many things which include, but are not limited to: grabbing the reader's attention, affecting their surroundings, and even tell a story. Tom's role in The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams, is a character that helps narrate the story and as a character, who acts within those memories and highlights the play's conflict between truth and memory's distortion of truth. Although The Glass Menagerie is considered to be a non-realistic play, there is a definite reality in Tom's recap of his memory w…