The Glass Menagerie-4

The play The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams is not like any play that I have seen or read before. This play is a memory, a nonrealistic piece. In the story, the narrator comes out and bluntly tells us that he is a narrator and a character. When we read or watch a play, the narrator is not supposed to do this. In fact, in order to be as realistic as possible, there should not be a narrator. We do not go around in our life with someone narrating our lives do we? The lighting  and music that are in the play are also big indicators that we are dealing with an unrealistic work. Emphasis on certain objects happens by us telling people directly and if we do not want it to be known, we do not say anything at all. When the characters don't say anything at all, the lights and music give away the feeling or thoughts that are expressed by them. In reality, we do not have lights and music that do this for us. " As if in answer, the father's grinning photograph lights up" [Perrine, 1249]. A thing that is unavoidable but also unrealistic, is not having a fourth wall. This causes seating and positioning in the room to be different than what it would have been if there would have been a fourth wall and we could peer from above. Peering from above would have give it a more realistic feel since these people are able to sit and move around in any direction.