Literary devices used in both "RoseColored Glasses" and "The Glass Menagerie" - the three themes: disappointment, expectations, and escapism.

Title: Literary devices used in both "RoseColored Glasses" and "The Glass Menagerie" - the three themes: disappointment, expectations, and escapism.
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Literary devices used in both "RoseColored Glasses" and "The Glass Menagerie" - the three themes: disappointment, expectations, and escapism.
"The Glass Menagerie" is about a dysfunctional family that consists of a mother, and her two adult children, Tom and Laura. All of them dream to seek comfort and to escape reality because none of them enjoys the life they lead. Similarly, in "Rose-Colored Glasses", the narrator of the poem is inclined to dream rather than to face reality because she has not overcome the transition from one big happy family to getting kicked out …showed first 75 words of 1332 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1332 total…the narrator dream their old times, Tom dreams his sailing prospects, and Laura dreams to be part of her glass menagerie world. Disappointment, expectation, and escapism are all central themes to both plays in order to convey the major theme that although the human need to dream may give one escape for a brief period of time, retreating too deeply into the dream can be harmful because you do not see reality as it is.

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