Ahmed Shakir Aabar, Dr. Rajabali Askarzadeh Torghabeh & Dr. Zohre Taebi
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran
The Glass Menagerie is a play about the mental representation of the character. Williams indicates the extent to which family members are close or far from each other and also how fragile they are. The writers of this article have used Lacan’s ideas to analyze the play. Lacan presents developmental mind order in his theory and his model of mind order containing imaginary order, symbolic order, and concepts named as desire and lack. The first dimension is the imaginary order. Williams makes the world of his characters in their dreams, their fantasies and their internal worlds that are much different from the definition of reality in the world outside. In fact their identities are recognized and known in their dreams and ideals and not but the external realities. The results of the study show that the main character who is also the narrator of the story is a man whose ideals in the outside world are repressed. We have also Laura, the sensitive girl of the house whose dependences to her glass menagerie plays the part of the object petit by which she is in the process of self-knowledge. Laura remains in his mirror stage and grasps to his glass menagerie to find her identity in her youth. The mother of the family, Amanda who is living just by making stories of her past. This is the best way she can escape the reality of her day because she sees just miseries in the reality of the material world.
The above abstract is a part of the article which was accepted at The Third International Conference on Current Issues of Languages, Dialects and Linguistics (WWW.TLLL.IR), 31 January-1February 2019 , Ahwaz.
