In The Glass Menagerie, the usage of props are important parts of the play. The fire escape, Victrola phonograph, Laura's unicorn, and Tom's movie going, affects the characters' lives everyday in one way or another. In the play, the character, Tom was disturbed by responsibility for his mother and sister. He used the fire escape a lot in the play. He went outside to stand on it when he smoked, to escape the nagging from his mother, or to make his final departure from his family. Tom didn't like being responsible for his mother and sister, working at a job he hated. He wanted to escape down those stairs and never come back. In scene five, Tom speaks to the audien....

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