"The Glass Menagerie" Celebrates Above All, the Human Need to Dream

Tennessee Williams celebrates the human need to dream in his play, 'The Glass Menagerie', with the use of dramatic techniques such as the music motif and the lighting effects, and the actions and thoughts processes of the characters themselves.
The dramatic techniques used in this play emphasize and contribute to the importance of dreaming; The stage directions used such as the musical motif contribute to this idea. The music celebrates the human need to dream in various scenes of the play. Calm, music can be heard while Amanda dreams of her glorious past and her hypothetical future.…