Tennessee William is the most exceptional American playwright. In these days Americans’ prospect of attaining opportunity of well-to-do life has become a dream as the very word “American Dream” itself indicates the denial of reality and if it still exists than it is not for all. Moreover, there is an objective to spot the influence of American Dream on the American society of 1930s and it will be compared to the contemporary American Dream. There is a deep psychological study ofall the main characters especially Laura, a young crippled girl, always afraid of the world outside and remain absorbed in the glass Menagerie. Mother’s name is Amanda whose mind is adorned with American Dream, she craves to secure the future of her family during the traumatic situation of the great depression, compels her daughter to study in business school and hampers Tom to relish the joys of music, liquor and movies lest he may lose his job. The play is based on a father absent family, consists of mother and two young children. The study of character’s behavior includes nostalgia, nervousness, frustration and desire of escape. This paper intends to determine the intuitive behavior of Characters and justify their seemingly amoral actions in a famous American play The Glass Menagerie, written in the background of Great depression. The findings unfold the logics concealed in the dialogues and kind of structures used for dramatic effect. A detailed linguistic analysis unravels the functional aspects of dialogic discourse that are embedded in the lines of the text. A review of literature related to the play gives a summary of the literary and linguistic research carried out by different researchers to understand the play from various aspects. The introductory part of the research paper presented the features of a dramatic discourse in relation to language of The Glass Menagerie. This research, furthermore, presented insights on how Tennessee Williams achieved the intended dramatic effect in the discourse of the characters. The study also analyzed the discourse contexts and their impact on the meaning of the given different situations that the main characters, i.e., Amanda, Laura, Tom Wingfield, encounter during the ongoing actions of the play.
The researchers applied these principles to uncover conventional and unconventional elements embedded in the structures of the language. This discourse analysis of the dialogic language was based on dialogic principles outlined by Weigand (2009). The present study made a discourse analysis of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie.
In The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) portrayed family relationships and struggles against hopelessness that threatens their lives. As a playwright, he is skilful to make the readers conscious of the unconscious habits and attitudes in everyday life. It elevated him to be one of the greatest playwrights of his generation. The Glass Menagerie is one of the Tennessee Williams' most famous plays which won the New York Drama Critics' Circle award. As a result each of them withdraws into a private world of illusion where they find the comfort and meaning that the real world fails to offer. All the characters are unable to accept and relate to this reality. The Oxford English Dictionary states memory as, " to commemorate to preserve a record or memorial of to record, mention, " But even though Tom is recollects " that quaint period, the thirties " to commemorate his family and their tragic existence, he does so with the " appearance of truth " and " illusions " that proves how fragile and deceitful memory can be. Although they find glimmers of hope throughout the story, each time is it extinguished like the candles at the end of the play. They look for it in their future, as they search for a way to find security and hope. " In many ways this is exactly what the characters of The Glass Menagerie seek in the play – perfection. "-Oscar Wilde Matthew Arnold once suggested that, " the pursuit of perfection is a pursuit of sweetness and light. Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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