The Analysis of the Thirdspace of the Glass Menagerie

Abstract

The Glass Menagerie, a masterpiece by Tennessee Williams, depicts the life of the lower middle class from the South, who came to the North for a living in the context of the Great Depression. The Southern women, Amanda and Laura, portrayed by Tennessee Williams in The Glass Menagerie, embody the Southern ladies' escape from the cruel reality and their remembrance and nostalgia for the Southern society and tradition. This article employs Edward W. Soja's perspective of Thirdspace, to analyze the decline of traditional Southern culture in The Glass Menagerie and Laura 's awakening as a new generation of southern women who tried to build spiritual sanctuary in the hybridity of North and South American culture.