Shyness

Uncovering Shyness through The Glass Menagerie

Scholars have studied shyness in various perspectives and have made quite a number of theories on the topic . Some sociologists have put shyness in cultural contexts , some psychologists have studied shyness in relation to experiences and an individual 's environment , and for some medical scholars shyness is caused by something genetic . Nonetheless shyness has remained a very interesting topic among researchers

Shyness as a condition is hard to categorize due to two reasons : 1 some individuals feel that shyness ' is normally and periodically felt given

certain situations and 2 . some individuals take the strains of the shy ' label seriously that it causes constant feelings of anxiousness , loneliness and frustrations , making treat shyness as a chronic and debilitating condition that interferes with their everyday lives (Scott 133 . Hence , shyness is treated very differently depending on the field of study it is being discussed in . This paper will attempt to analyze Laura Wingfiled 's shyness in The Glass Menagerie ' by Tennessee Williams using various perspectives

On Laura Wingfield

Williams ' screenplay The Glass Menagerie ' has a character named Laura Wingfield who suffers from a condition of extreme shyness due to her being a cripple ' In a more politically correct term , Laura is physically challenged as one of her legs is shorter than the other . The play was set in the late 1930s , a phase where America is still struggling from the remnants of the Great Depression . Laura lives with her mother Amanda and her brother Tom . She...