ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Composed in 1943, “Portrait of a Girl in Glass” introduces us to the characters that Williams would realize more fully in his first stage success: Tom Wingfield, the narrator, a poet who works in a warehouse to help support the family; his sister, Laura; their Southern-born mother; and Jim, the Gentleman Caller.

Detailed explanation-2: -In this memory play, narrator Tom Wingfield who is also a character in the play, tells the story from his memories. Set in St. Louis in 1937, Tom works a tiresome job in a shoe warehouse in order to support his mother, Amanda, and his sister, Laura.

Detailed explanation-3: -The narrator is an older Tom, some years after the scenes that are played out. He defines the way in which the play is presented here, as a “memory scene.” Not only does the narrator guide us through the action with, you know, narration, but he also infuses the play with its tone and memory-like appearance.

Detailed explanation-4: -Laura. Doubtlessly, the protagonist is Laura. She’s the only one that, we, the audience, don’t get annoyed with all the time or feel the need to judge on the basis of his/her awful moral decisions, and she has all these great protagonist qualities like being perceptive and kind and beautiful.

Detailed explanation-5: -In the character descriptions preceding the play, Jim is described as a “nice, ordinary, young man.” He is the emissary from the world of normality. Yet this ordinary and simple person, seemingly out of place with the other characters, plays an important role in the climax of the play.