In the play, The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, the author makes sure to use a lot of symbols and images to depict different ideas or views. I'm going to talk about the one which I think is the most important and unique one in the play. This is the symbol of the unicorn that looses its horn near the end of the play. <Tab/>The only glass unicorn that Laura …showed first 75 words of 1783 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1783 total…lt;Tab/>In the end, when Tom was fed-up with his current life, a life that he hated and would trade with anyone else, he decided to leave. Just like his father, he goes down the fire exit to which he retreated many-a-times to have a smoke. Tom had decided to join the Marines. He doesn't care of what would happen to his mother and sister once he fled the place he hated.