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Mr. Wingfield left his family behind as he went off to seek a better life. Tom often makes jokes about his fathers prior job at the telephone company, and tells the audience that he "fell in love with long distances"(Williams 695). This is his attempt to ease the pain of abandonment by turning it into something humorous. At one point in the story Tom is talking about a magician he went to see and how he got out of a nailed coffin without removing a nail. " You know
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The first and most obvious way to escape is the fire escape that leads him away from his desolate home. The Distorted Mirror: Tennessee Williams' Self Portraits. It is inevitable that the thing that Tom resents most in his father is exactly what Tom himself will carry o!
ut in the end. But who in hell ever got out himself out of one without removing one nail"(Williams 705)? Almost as an answer, his father's picture lights up showing the giant portrait of him grinning. Showing or Telling: Narrators in the Drama of Tennessee Williams. He wants to escape, travel long distances to get the adventure that the shoe warehouse and St. The majority of Tom's monologues take place on the fire escape.
Works Cited
Boxill, Roger. I believe this quote, from Nancy Tischler shows Tom's struggle to be happy: "A man of imagination seldom finds fulfillment in a shoe factory; a boy seldom becomes a man under the watchful eye of a domineering mother; the break for the past is always painful for the sensitive man" (Tischler 166). 158-170
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**Bibliography**
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