# The Glass Menagerie

**Author:** Tennessee Williams
**Grade range:** Grades 11–12
**Age range:** 15–18
**First published:** 1944
**Page count:** 144
**Genre:** Drama
**ISBN-13:** `9780811214049`
**ISBN-10:** `0811214044`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/the-glass-menagerie
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Tennessee Williams's autobiographical 'memory play' follows the Wingfield family in Depression-era St. Louis: the domineering Amanda, her painfully shy daughter Laura and her glass animal collection, and the restless narrator Tom. The drama examines illusion, memory, family obligation, and the gap between dreams and reality. A frequent grades 11-12 and AP text for studying modern American theater.

## Themes

- family
- illusion and reality
- memory
- disillusionment

## Content notes

- disability
- family conflict

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