The Lonely Victims of the Glass Menagerie

Abstract

Loneliness is a part of the human condition. It is not synonymous with being alone because one can be alone and not feel lonely. It can drive people into all kinds of social and mental problems, often making life almost unbearable for themselves and for those around them. People experience it subjectively when certain needs are deprived. There are many possible sources of loneliness, both situational, circumstantial and personal or psychological. There is bitterness in the feeling of loneliness. Generally people take refuge in isolation, in an attempt to escape from the world of reality. Lonely women experience a kind of death-in-life and also a feeling of anxiety, emptiness, shyness and boredom. Nearly breaking them psychologically. Tennessee Williams attempts to depict the problems of lonely broken women in his plays. His dramas can be read as an obsession with loneliness and enduring dread of inevitably failed communication.