So the play s scenes look soft and dreamlike In Scene Tom tells the audience The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic This means that the play shows feelings not reality The music plays softly whenever Laura appears creating the delicate mood of remembrance Tom as the Memory Holder Tom is both the narrator and a character He stands between the past and the present He tells us about his mother Amanda his sister Laura and his wish to escape Yet his memory never lets him rest At the end he says in Scene Blow out your candles Laura and so goodbye This line shows his deep guilt He left his family but his mind remains with Laura His memory becomes his punishment Tom s memory is full of sadness and longing In Scene He tells us that In memory everything seems to happen to music Music is part of his emotional world It helps the audience feel what he feels The gentle tune behind each scene reminds us that memory is never silent It sings softly inside the heart Dreamlike Stage and Expressionism Williams uses light sound and symbols to show memory The lighting is dim The colors are emotional not natural The glass animals glow as if in a dream Laura s limp and her glass menagerie reflect her fragile soul The unicorn her favorite piece breaks when Jim dances with her Laura says in Scene Now he will feel more at home with the other horses This moment becomes part of Tom s sad memory It shows how love and pain live together in his heart The fire escape is another symbol of memory It represents Tom s way out and Laura s fear of the world Every night he goes to the movies to escape from his dull life Amanda says You live in a dream you manufacture illusions Her words remind us that both mother and son live in their own memories not in reality Emotional Truth of the Past In 'The Glass Menagerie memory is not falsehood It is an emotional truth Tom s story is shaped by love pity and regret The play teaches that people never escape their past Memory changes form but never dies Even after leaving home Tom carries Laura s image everywhere He says in Scene I didn t go to the moon I went much further His body left but his soul stayed behind In Conclusion 'The Glass Menagerie is more than a family story It is the heart s memory shaped into art Williams uses music light and symbols to show how memory works Tom s voice makes the past live again The play proves that memory never ends it only glows softly like Laura s glass world