The Glass Menagerie

We have been watching the movie "The Glass Menagerie" the past few classes. It is the one directed by Paul Newman, the guy that made all of those dressings and sauces. It is also a play written by Tennessee Williams. It also has John Malkovich in it. He plays Tom Wingfield in the movie. I knew I had recognized him and then realized he is in that new movie "Warm Bodies." Anyways, my first thought was that the movie was really old looking and did not look like it would be interesting. It has yet to put me to sleep, because I am actually enjoying it. I am confused about a few things though. For instance, why is Laura crippled? I know it is something that is wrong with her foot, but they have not mentioned what happened to her. Also, what is the story behind the glass? I mean it IS in the title and I still do not really know why. I need to get to reading the play before Friday though and hopefully figure out what happens in the end. I would like to see Laura step out of her comfort zone an actually go for this "gentleman caller."

So far...

English has never been my favorite subject nor my best. I am not the best at speaking up in front of others. I hate being the center of attention. I enjoy the fact that the Sweeney is using the blogging technique. It gives us shy people a chance to speak out. I have enjoyed English 102 so far and have been keeping up with all of the readings. When I read the first story "How to Become a Writer", I thought "well this is going to be pretty easy." Because it was such a short story, but I have realized that the stories get longer as we go along. We have read about seven stories already. I think I have liked almost all, but a couple. For instance, I have never been a big Edgar Allan Poe fan and I had to read " A Cask of Amontillado" once before and did not like it. He is a strange man and rather creepy. Also, "The Yellow Wallpaper" was weird. Other than those two, I actually liked and read to the end of all of the other stories. For some reason, "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven" was one of my favorites.