Thoughts of Reading THE GLASS MENAGERIE

——Aaron,Yang Xuanyu

The Glass Menagerie is a drama written by Tennessee Williams, a famous American writer who lends his name for his Realism compositions. It is a simple drama with only four main characters, the mother Amanda, the son Tom, Tom’s sister Laura and his friend Jim. Also, there exists a character never showing up, Tom’s father, Wingfield.

Tom is a worker working in a shoe factory, he is imaginative, feeling boring about his life and wants to take adventure in the future. However, the truth is that he is just daydreaming. He dreamed to become a poet but he has to work hard to support his poor family. So he goes to cinema to watch film every night to scape the cruel reality, even so he still does not get his mother’s comprehension,which bring quarrels among the family members.His mother, Amanda, a middle age woman,who was born in a rich family and brought up in a superior condition during her young age. While she became poorer and poorer after she got married, especially her husband went away for adventure. But she is too weak to face the reality and is always drunk in the former live.In her opinion, women always depend on men, but her husband abandoned the whole family, which is the cause of Laura’s tragedy.

Amanda loves her son and daughter, holding hopes for their lives. She is optimistic and try her best to make their live better off. However,

the reality betrays her so she has to get relief by looking back. From my point of view, Jim is the ambassador of the reality, his characteristic and values are marked to the society nowadays. He devotes to his goal untiringly and holds the opinion that as long as he tries , he can be successful. But the moral requests force him to hurt Laura’s fragile heart. And to the Wingfields, everything about Jim is none of their business.

The main character,Laura, whose experiences strick out the central idea of the drama.When she was young, she got sick and became lamp. After then she became shy and autism, feeling inferior because of her disability. She dropped out and stayed at home, companied with glass animal toys her collects carefully. At home, she drenched in the classical music discs her father left and talking to her glass toys, enjoying the illusory live isolated from outing world . Amanda worries and wants to bring confidence and hopes to her daughter, so she want to introduce a man who Laura loves to her to help her cheer up, and the man is Jim.

When Jim appears at Amanda’a house, Laura shows happy, unbelievable and also shy and nervous. Gradually, Jim’s enthusiasm burns up Laura’s hope and she become lively and expert, getting rid of her former inferiority. She chats with Jim, dances and even kisses him ignoring that her favourite glass toys have been broken apart. Finally she knows that Jim has been engaged with another girl and she gets desperate.

This is a fully tragedy, the kind people are always toyed by the life. No matter what time it is, there always exists such people who try their best for a better future, facing the pressure from the cruel society. However, all the efforts they have done are as fragile as the glass, unstable and easy to break apart. They don’t know when is the day that the reality breaks down all they own known in front of them. This kind of tragedy is not belonging to a single person, it belongs to the whole society.

There is a glass menagerie existing in everybody’s heart, Amanda always look back to her former grand and Tom is drunk in the films. When we get trapped, we can search for peace in our glass menagerie for a moment. However, once you get lost in it, your heart will become like glass, beautiful but fragile.

第二篇：Thoughts on reading A Bowl of Yangchun Noodle

Thoughts on reading A Bowl of Yangchun

Noodle

We can encounter something which can touch us in our daily life. Something about persistence,belief,respect and love. All these give us a deep feeling. After reading A Bowl of Yangchun Noodle,my eyes are filled with tears.

Different people may catch different points that impressed or even moved himself/herself. From my point of view,I'm deeply touched by the mother and her two sons. The two sons were so considerate that they helped their mother in both the economy and life. Though life was tough,the family still had an optimistic and strong attitude towards life. A bowl of noodle for the whole family was so warm in the cold winter night. Their strong faith and the spirit of struggle overcame all difficulties. On the other hand,the host and the hostess of the restaurant showed us their sympathy and kindness. What they provided was not only a bowl of yangchun noodle,but also a kind of care and dignity. On every new year's evening,they preserved a table for the mother and her two boys. What's more,they persisted it as a promise years by years.

The table was the excitation to the host and hostess while the yangchun noodle was an expectation on the mother and her sons. I can clearly remember the smiles on the host's face when he saw the mother and sons again after 14 years.

Every person in this story left me a deep impression. Such as the family's love and the couple's sympathy. A bowl of yangchun noodle solved the problem of food. Besides,it changed the life of the family.