Music of Menagerie

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

"Alone she turns to look at her husband's picture. Dance music: "All the World Is Waiting for the Sunrise!"" (Williams, page 1255).

The music of the play adds to the events and emotions of the play. The music titled after the title of the play seems to occur and play when Laura's emotions and actions are the forefront of the play. With the correlation between Laura and the play in the entirety, the play most closely examines Laura and what happens to her as a result of her brother and mother. Furthermore, the playing of the theme music plays when someone begins to deeply discuss Laura. Other times it is played is when something around Laura disrupts her glass like qualities where she can break slowly from the pressure of her family. When Tom gets worked up and breaks some of her glass, the song is displayed showing that Tom's actions and words slowly break through and destroy parts of Laura. Another song, "All the World Is Waiting for the Sunrise!" also plays a role in describing Amanda. The song is played after Amanda looks at her husband's picture and then Tom describes the dancing of their time. Although I looked up the song and found it was playing a role of explaining the war situation in the story, Amanda seems to rely on the song as well. The lyrics of the song seem to resemble that Amanda has yet to give up her hope for the return of her husband and that drives her motives in the play.