The country collectively was dealing with the themes of the play in a very real relevant way. Perhaps most importantly, 'The Glass Menagerie' was one of the plays that lead to the way we understand and accept a kind of selective realism that is most common today. |
Williams offered a different kind of drama at the time of its first production in 1945. The American theater had already experienced a boom in social realism. However, 'The Glass Menagerie' brought realism with poetry and combined different theatrical elements that touch on expressionism and symbolism. |