Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

4 reviews

hjb_128's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Ableism, and Misogyny

Moderate: Emotional abuse

Minor: Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Abandonment

rogankeira's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

The apartment... is entered by a fire escape, a structure whose name is a touch of accidental poetic truth, for all of these huge buildings are always burning with the slow and implacable fires of human desperation. 

The story of a dysfunctional family (very dysfunctional). As with other Williams' work, quietly  and tender, beautiful writing. 

Amanda wants her children to be happy and successful (whilst living the life she imagines for them) as she cannot bring herself to forget her grandiose, idealised past. 

Tom is a poet stuck in a warehouse job (his mother makes him want to run off like his father did). 

Amanda: Go, then! Go the moon - you selfish dreamer!

Tom:

I didn't go to the moon, I went much further - for time is the longest distance between two places.

Laura is quiet and shy, nervous and mostly just interested in her glass menagerie of animal figurines,

whose hopes for companionship are dashed when the man her brother introduces to her is already engaged

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Classism, Racism, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Ableism, and Abandonment

Minor: Mental illness and Racial slurs

Most of these are treated as negative things, not positive (apart from mental illness - although negative attitudes are displayed by some characters, the play itself is more sympathetic).

tsundoku_'s review

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I read this for school, and I have to say this is one of the only books I've read for school that I've actually enjoyed. It was definitely sad. I just feel bad for Tom and Laura's situations.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, and Racism

grayscale08's review

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, and Mental illness

Minor: Alcohol, Cursing, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Sexism, Abandonment, and Ableism