Tennessee Williams 'The Glass Menagerie': Discussion of the Character of Jim as a Symbol of Individual Hopes and as a Representative of the American Ideology of Optimism and Progressivism

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,7, University of Tubingen, course: Introduction to literary studies (American literature), language: English, abstract: The subject of this work is the character of Jim O€Connor in Tennessee Williams€ play The Glass Menagerie . The text discusses the question to what extent he is a symbol of hope for all members of the Wingfield family and of whether he is a representative of the American ideology of optimism and progressivism.