e cinematic "eye" but also
             as the cinematic "I" who sees (and speaks) within the fictive narrative of
             The Glass Menagerie" (Crandell, pg3). This play is already considered
             autobiographical, and Wingfield "going to the movies" whenever he was
             confronted with an unpleasant situation parallels Williams's own life.
             Nevertheless, he is the focal point and our link to the story which
             not only copycats the function of a camera in film-making, but gives us the
             added dimension of being directed' by Wingfield and not left to our own
             devices in following a theater production. Williams makes use of his
             narrator as a means to keep his audience in th
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