One connection I saw between The Glass Menagerie and Native Son was the use of animal symbolism. In Native son, the black rat, always scurrying around the streets and living in dirty holes, represented the black community. The White cat, majestic, all seeing, all knowing, represents the white community. In The Glass Menagerie, Laura’s glass menagerie represents her fragility, and shows her separation from the world everyone else lives in.
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Nice, I wouldn't have thought of that. How does the glass menagerie show Laura's separation from the rest of the world?
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