Plays

Literary Allusion and Symbol Websites related to The Glass Menagerie. Visit these sites to gather information for class exploration. Let the following questions guide you.

1. What are Jonquils? What do they look like and how much do they cost?
2. What is Guernica? Describe it and note some background information. What famous person is linked with it?
3. What does a Daumier print look like? Who is Daumier?
4. What is the DAR and how does one become a member?
5. What is the Frigidaire referred to in the play? What other products does Frigidaire manufacture?
6. What is the Merchant Marines? How does one learn?
7. What are unicorns? Describe some websites.
8. What are some problems relevant to absentee parts and the family unit?
9. What is the American Dream? What is your American Dream?

Table Manners

http://www.scribd.com/doc/16650803/Manners-and-Etiquette

Frigidaire

http://antiquevintageappliances.com/antique_refrigerators_unfinished.html

DAR in St. Louis

http://www.mssdar.org/stljef/

Daughters of the American Revolution

http://www.dar.org/natsociety/become_member_whatis.cfm

http://www.dar.org/

Picasso's Guernica

http://www.pablopicasso.org/guernica.jsp

http://web.org.uk/picasso/secret_guernica.html

Merchant Marines

http://www.usmm.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Merchant_Marine

Bulbs

http://www.dannylipford.com/whats-the-difference-between-daffodils-jonquils-and-buttercups/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_(plant)

Blue Roses

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_rose

http://www.rosegathering.com/meaning.html

Movies of the 1930's

http://www.filmsite.org/30sintro.html

http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/life_16.html

Art of the era