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Three Important Symbols in The screwball Menagerie by Tennessee Williams In Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie, the teller is used to propound elements of Williams own life as a victim of the Depression in the 1930s. Williams does this through his eloquent use of symbolism. Three symbols seem to reveal Williams intent especially accurately the unicorn, the picture of Mr. Wingfield, and Malvolios coffin trick. The unicorn is a symbolic representation of ways that Laura is unique or preposterous. The first facet of the unicorn, its horn, refers to ways that Laura is an unusual person, such as in her may escape mechanisms. Lauras escape devices include her glass menagerie, list... ...ness in the Plays of Tennessee Williams. Bowling Green Bowling Green State University, 1997. Presley, Delma. The Glass Menagerie An American Memory. Boston Twayne, 1990. http//www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/williams_tennessee Williams, Tennessee. The Glass Menagerie. New York Random House, 1985.