The Glass Menagerie / Tennessee Williams

Test Practice

ACT 1
Analyze Literary Techniques

With your partner, discuss how to answer these questions about the selection.

1. Why is the glass menagerie a good symbol for Laura?
a. Laura loves animals and collects glass figurines.
b. Laura is beautiful but fragile like the glass animals.
c. The glass menagerie is a once favored item that has been passed over.
d. The rigidity of the glass represents Laura’s unyielding nature.


What is the correct answer to the question above? How did the information you gathered while reading help you eliminate incorrect answers?

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