What is the Paradise Hall What does it represent in The Glass Menagerie Paradise Dance Hall is a symbolic and slightly ironic setting in the play It is located near the Wingfield apartment It articulates music and displays rainbow-coloured lights It can be seen from the fire escape where the characters often find themselves This venue offers an escape to an artificial heaven for apartment dwellers It gives them a sense of privacy and pleasure that their lives lack The name Paradise Dance Hall is rich in symbolism It evokes images of an Edenic bliss that contrasts with the harsh realities of life during the s a time of innocence before the upheavals of World War II Furthermore Tom's reference to the devastating bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War adds a layer of irony It contrasts the dance hall's promise of paradise with historical events marked by violence