The Glass Menagerie

I was curious to learn more about Tennessee Williams after (finally) seeing A Streetcar Named Desire. There was something in this movie that talked to me and I wanted to know more, so I started with this one, The Glass Menagerie, that made him famous.

Being a theater piece, it's much shorter than I expected, but also very easy to read. I found a lot of the relationships I encountered in life in the relationship depicted in this piece between Laura and her mother, the same fears, expectations and all the wrong ways to handle it. Tom being the narrator was somewhat more distant and a harder character to understand.

I'm not sure it will leave me a lasting memory, but I must say I really want to see this one in real life (especially given the setting the author imagined for the stage).

"I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion."