Analysis and Criticism

Analysis and Criticism

ALL events in the story should be referred to in the present tense. Tom loves his sister but resents his mother. Eventually resentment wins, and he abandons them both at the end of the play. Historical information should be referred to in the past tense. The Glass Menagerie reflects the troubled relationship that Tennessee Williams had with his own family. His mother Edwina was a faded southern belle and his sister Rose suffered from severe emotional problems that led to her being lobotomized and confined to an institution.

Names of long works like books, plays, academic journals, databases, and websites are italicized both in the text of the story and in the works cited page. Cadullo, Bert. Through the Looking Glass: The Role of Memory in The Glass Menagerie. Notes on Contemporary Literature 38.4 (2008): 5. Literature Resources from Gale. Web. 15 Apr. 2011.

Use signal phrases to introduce all direct quotes, whether from the play or from the critical sources. All of the Wingfields are dreamers, but as critic L. M. Domina notes, this tendency to resist reality is most obvious in the female characters (133). Amanda obsesses about her long-ago girlhood in Blue Mountain; Laura lives inside of her glass menagerie. For more info on writing signal phrases, consult pages 420-421 of your Little, Brown handbook.

If you cite more than one work by the same author, the citations in the works cited should follow a specific format: Glaspell, Susan. Creating Trifles. Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing. Eds. X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. 11 th Ed. New York: Pearson Longman, 2009. 1126-1127. Print. ---. Trifles. Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing. Eds. X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. 11 th Ed. New York: Pearson Longman, 2009. 1111-1122. Print.

The in-text citations for these works will be more complicated than regular in-text citations. (Glaspell, Creating Trifles 1127) (Glaspell, Trifles 1112)

Remember, always cite by the author name if you have one. If this is the only work by that author you re citing in your paper, you need only the author name and page or paragraph number. (Glenn 226) Citation for Lane Glenn packet article (Beatty par. 3) Citation for Greg Beatty database article You only cite by title if you don t have an author name. ( Trifles: Overview 218) Citation for packet background info.

Quotations from a play that are less than four typed lines and involve only one character may be quoted like any other passage from a literary work: Tom makes his despair clear in Scene IV: You know it don t take much intelligence to get yourself into a nailed up coffin. But who in hell ever got himself out of one without removing one nail? (Williams 1625).

Quotations from a play that are longer than four typed lines and/or involve more than one character have a unique format. Indent the usual ten spaces/one inch, type each character s name in all caps followed by a period, and indent all lines after the first an additional three spaces. Quotation marks are omitted. The difference between the way Tom and Amanda view the world is evident in this passage: AMANDA. Most young men find adventure in their careers. TOM. Most young men are not employed in warehouses. AMANDA. The world is full of young men employed in warehouses and offices and factories. TOM. Do all of them find adventure in their careers? AMANDA. They do or they do without it! (Williams 1628)

Name of author. Name of article. Name of journal. Volume number.issue number (Year of publication): Page numbers. [If none are given, put n. pag after the colon]. Print. Holstein, Suzy Clarkson. Silent Justice in a Different Key: Trifles. The Midwest Quarterly 44.3 (2003): 282. Print.

Original print citation information. Name of database. Web. Date of Access. Holstein, Suzy Clarkson. Silent Justice in a Different Key: Trifles. The Midwest Quarterly 44.3 (2003): 282. Literature Resources from Gale. Web. 18 Apr. 2011.

Author name. Title of article. Name of book. Editor of book. Publication information. Page numbers (if given). Name of Database. Web. Date of Access. Stein, Roger B. The Glass Menagerie Revisited: Catastrophe Without Violence. Bloom s Modern Critical Interpretations: The Glass Menagerie. Ed. Harold Bloom. Infobase, 1988. 7-20. Literary Reference Center. Web. 20 Apr. 2011.

Name of entry. Name of book. Publication information. Page numbers (if given). Name of Database. Web. Date of Access. Tennessee Williams: Biography. Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2008. Literature Resources from Gale. Web. 15 Apr. 2011.

Author name. Article name. Name of book. Editor name. Name of book series. Publication information. Page numbers (if given). Name of Database. Web. Date of Access. Welland, Dennis. "Tennessee Williams: Overview." Contemporary American Dramatists. Ed. K. A. Berney. Contemporary Literature Series. London: St. James Press, 1994. Literature Resources from Gale. Web. 18 Apr. 2011.

Both Literary Reference Center and Literature Resources from Gale have green Cite buttons next to their entry on the database homepage. These buttons give sample citations for every kind of article that can be found in these databases. Be sure you are using the right sample to help cite your article: The examples are for many different kinds of sources.

If the database gives you the option of a PDF file, use the page numbers in the file. Those are stable. Otherwise, you need to cite by paragraph number. (Yes, you ll have to count the paragraphs yourself!) According to critic Marcia Noe, Susan Glaspell was a product of conservative values but rebelled against these values and the conventions of midwestern culture with which they were associated, seeking the freedom to experiment with new ways of living and writing in Chicago, Greenwich Village, and Europe (par. 1).

The Library has a long PDF file that explains how to cite most common sources: Cite Sources. Your Little, Brown handbook has a guide to all common in-text citations on 465-473. Your Little, Brown handbook has an index to all common works cited citations on 474-505. There is a sample works cited for both Glaspell and Williams at my LSCC homepage. Sample MLA papers are available in your Little, Brown handbook and in your textbook.

A rough draft of the essay is due at the writing workshop on Monday, April 18. The draft should contain the bulk of the essay (at least three full pages). Bring two copies of your rough draft. You will exchange these drafts with classmates and peer review. The drafts should be typed, in MLA format and include MLA-style citations and a works cited. Students arriving at the workshop without the rough drafts will not receive credit for the drafts, the peer reviews, or attendance. Students arriving at the workshop without the rough drafts will not receive credit for the drafts, the peer reviews, or attendance. The rough draft is worth 30 points.

You must complete two peer reviews for your classmates and receive two peer reviews from them. Each peer review should be at least a page in length. Your peer review questions are on the handout. Answer them in dark blue or black ink on a separate sheet of notebook paper. You may also write on the draft. All peer reviews must be finished by the end of class on Monday, April 18. Bring the peer reviews you completed to be checked off by me before you leave. The peer evaluations are worth 20 points.

Essay #2 is due Wednesday, April 27 at 11:59 PM. NO LATE ESSAYS WILL BE ACCEPTED. The essay should be e-mailed to my school address: chanceyk@lscc.edu. It should be submitted in a Word 2003/2007/2010 file attached to the e- mail. Put the following keywords in the subject line of the e-mail: Essay 2 and your section number (11:00 class is 20047 and 12:30 class is 20048). Essays not conforming to guidelines will lose points. NO LATE ESSAYS WILL BE ACCEPTED. Essay #2 is worth 200 points.