The family background is that my father ran away from home a long time ago and finally lost contact. Laura is her sister, but she lives on her own land in Xiaotian. Collecting glass animals is her hobby. Mother remembers the scenery when she was young. Tom has his own ambition and always goes to the movies.

Adam likes to tell his children about his experiences when he was young, which often causes Tom's antipathy. Meanwhile, Adam has been expecting Lola to have a male guest to visit her. However, Lola cannot face the outside world. Her strong inferiority complex kept her in business school for only a few days, and her mother blamed Lola when she learned about it. Lola only stays on middle school Jim emotionally. Mother didn't want Lola to go on like this, so she asked Tom to bring back a male guest for Lola. Unwilling Tom quarreled with his mother, breaking Adam's heart and accidentally breaking Lola's glass animal. After Tom apologized to his mother, he promised to bring his companion Jim. Laura was very nervous when she saw Jim. It was Jim who took the initiative to talk to her, and they recalled the past. Jim dispelled Laura's inferiority complex, but told her that she was getting married, and Laura was hit again. The failure to see Jim dashed the hopes of the whole family. Tom left home for his beliefs.

The play is autobiographical to a great extent, reflecting the author's previous family situation and his painful memories of his youth. The play once performed 56 1 performance in a row on Broadway, which was a sensation. Some critics believe that this drama has opened a new chapter in the history of western drama! Tennessee williams himself said that the significance of the play lies in showing that "in modern society, the strong who bully the weak and are brutal and cruel have ravaged the gentle and gentle weak", which has certain guiding significance for us to correctly examine this work.

As Lola's favorite collection and the name of her works, "Glass Animals" has certain symbolic significance.

Glass is fragile and animals are alive. The combination of the two has a strange meaning. The work is named the Glass Zoo, and then it is related to the environment where the work takes place: the residential area of middle and lower class citizens. So it can be understood that "glass animals" are the symbols of these people in the lower class of society. The Adam family is an outstanding representative.

"Zoo" can be understood as a symbol of home, and people are vulnerable animals at home. With glass as the prefix, we can think that the fate of people in the works is like an open long palm, from which people can't escape, so the feelings are fragile and ambiguous.

In the "glass zoo", people become animals and are imprisoned in this increasingly numb space. People are made of glass, with strong surface and fragile heart. They can't be hurt, but they hurt each other. It makes people feel helpless and sad.

External pressure and internal mutual harm can deepen our understanding of "glass animals".

My mother came back from the Women's Federation and said, to be honest, I don't have the courage to go. I really want to find a hole in the ground and hide in it forever. In the third scene, the quarrel between Tom and Adam made both of them spend a miserable day. These are all manifestations of emotional fragility. Being hurt by others and hurting others are bound to lose both sides.

Pain, emptiness and collective injury are the greatest tragic forces of the play, and they are the author's profound reflection and spiritual macro-care for the bottom people.

Father ran away, leaving the family to live a hard life, and Tom was the only one to rely on. Tom had to sacrifice his pursuit and ideal for his family, which was painful, so he chose to watch movies to escape. Comfort your heart with the stories in the movie. Mother Adaman remembers her youth, but she is exhausted by reality and worried about her children's future. Lola lives in her own world, unwilling to contact with the outside world, and extremely inferior.

All three people have the idea of escape, which seems to be the same, but their expressions are different. Escaping is not simply escaping from life, but a deeper understanding is that they are evading responsibility.

Tom wants to leave only when he is no longer needed at home. It seems impossible to see everything too far at present, so he has to endure being trapped by life and family. Mother's memories of the past will inevitably form a strong contrast with the hardships of the present, so the idea of getting out of the predicament will inevitably prompt her to find a way out. Therefore, Lola became a useful person at home.

Mother Adam asked Lola to study, but failed. So finding a son-in-law to change the family's predicament has become a new hope. Tom didn't want to do this, but the quarrel with his mother and unbearable pain made him finally exchange his sister, and he took Jim.

The relationship has been established, but this simple triangular structure contains complex emotions and thoughts. They all have the desire to pursue a better life, but they are interlinked and inseparable. I want to run away, but the environment prevents me from really practicing running away. Stay, play their own roles, and make them miserable and depressed. The real hope came, Jim came, but the result was failure. Facts have proved that the family's hopes are only subjective fantasies.

As a commentator, Tom's explanation and penetrating power played an important role in this play.

On his first appearance, he admitted that the play was a memory play. He turned the time back to thirty years ago and told the story that happened thirty years ago. At this time, Tom was a "poet" working in a warehouse, with his own ambitions and pursuits. He is brilliant and has a rich inner world. He wanted to help his family, but there was nothing he could do. He tried to escape, but he couldn't leave. For himself, he finally used his sister as a means of exchange, not wanting to bring more harm to Laura.

In the conversation with Adam, Tom was disgusted with his mother's education because he had realized his role in the family and his responsibility to his sister. At the same time, he hopes that he can have a vision to continue his life. He can't satisfy Adam's hopes. Although he is still at work, he is very depressed.

After quarreling with his mother for the third time, Tom roared, "I'm going to the opium den!" " Yes, opium dens, thieves' dens, homeless shelters ... "He tore his clothes, accidentally broke Lola's glass animals and threatened his mother. These are all manifestations that he can't stand anymore.

He introduced the magician to the audience. He hopes he is, but he can't. Because life is realistic, he can't tolerate any illusions. So he finally had to give Laura a headscarf as a gift.

Unable to fulfill his responsibilities to the family, the idea of running away burned again, so Jim was introduced to the family. Like his mother, he pinned all his hopes on Jim, an outsider. Everything is fine. Jim arrived as promised. But we will soon find that this Jim is not even as good as Tom. He is realistic and hardworking, but he lacks Tom's enterprising spirit. Final failure is inevitable.

Tom left, leaving the unbearable family cruelly. Mother despaired of him ... Let's go and leave us alone! An abandoned mother, an unmarried sister, she is disabled and has no job! Nothing can interfere with your selfish happiness. ""I can't go to the moon, I want to go further-because time is the farthest distance between the two places ... "

So what if you leave? He still didn't get better, so he showed his guilt for Lola at the beginning and the end. He abandoned his sister and mother, which will be a pain he will never recover. Finally, Tom spoke his heart emotionally: "I want to stay, but something is always chasing me." It's always sudden and unexpected. It may be a familiar piece of music or a piece of transparent glass ... "Tom will never let go, even though he let Lola blow out the candle.

As a mother, Adam's concern for children is more manifested as a suffocating concern. Force son, force daughter. She is facing a difficult life path and hopes to get rid of it, but neither her son nor daughter can reassure her. She also wants to escape from the embarrassment and poverty she faces every day, but unlike Tom, she wants to maintain this family, not leave.

In the morning, Adam will ask the children to say "get up early in the morning and look radiant", but they can't. What about themselves? How to make yourself "radiant" when you call to buy a magazine and are ridiculed to go to the Women's Federation?

Daughter Lola played truant, which deeply hurt her heart. She educated her daughter, who just dodged. Lola was forced to meet the guests, because she couldn't miss any chance to change her family, so she completely ignored Lola's own feelings.

After Jim left, so did her son. She said, "then go, go to the moon!" You are a selfish visionary! " In my life, two men abandoned themselves, husband and son. How painful! In the years after her son left, she was destined to make life at home more difficult.

Jim didn't know how important he was to Lola until he recognized the girl he once called "blue rose" at Lola's prompt. His arrival will naturally make Luo nervous and full of longing.

Jim is very practical. He has his own troubles, but he knows what he wants to do. He exhorted Laura: "You are the only one who is disappointed, but if you look around, you will find many people are as disappointed as you." Jim wanted to break Laura's inferiority complex, so he asked her to dance and told her that no one thought she was disabled in middle school. Everything seems to be going on normally, but Jim accidentally broke the "unicorn", suggesting that he was also destined to break Lola's hope. Jim took a fancy to Lola and kissed her. However, he already has a girlfriend and loves her very much, so love with Lola is impossible. This time, the blow to Lola is the biggest, and the dream that has been kept until now has been shattered.

Jim didn't want to hurt Lola, but he was so different from this family. Tom wants a poetic life, Adam is recalling his past, and Lola only lives in her own world. Faced with such a family, Jim can do nothing. Even if he joins the family, what's the use? Poor Tom didn't invite a real savior, but someone who did them more harm.

The Glass Zoo reflects the story of winfield's family disintegration and the profound tragedy at the bottom of society. This is also the consistent style of the author Tennessee Williams.

In a painful memory, a dilapidated house, three interdependent and mutually harmful people. They made up this outstanding play. Good tragedies always seem to have a powerful shock, giving people depressed and resentful memories. Tom's persistence in his ideal and abandonment of the family that needs him most seem understandable. At this point, I think it is because we understand the environment and the overall sadness through the plays. People are inseparable from the environment, so a bad environment will give people a tragic life. Tom and Lola, including Adam, are all people who have been hurt by the times. They are all escaping from reality and looking forward to a bright future. My immaturity can only adapt to the harsh reality, but I have no resistance. This is the root of this tragedy.

Tom left, left his home. Despite irresponsible condemnation, there is still hope.