The glass menagerie

[wasel halwani]

By Tennessee Williams

I can't understand the end of the play What is the meaning of " Laura blow out your candle

[rancher247]

Could you provide us with a link to the full version of the play so we can read it and further understand what Williams means?

[Red5]

Here's a link to the relevant final part of the script: Tom...from The Glass Menagerie

[trans]

So, these are her candles that she blows out.
Must be a metaphor for her love (as rare and outdated as candles are at the age of electricity), which didn't let him go - or kept alive - all against his will or conscious?
Like "Stop loving me!" - and she stops, whatever he says. ???
(One must read first before guessing though. I promise I will.)

[trans]

I should have called it a symbol, not a metaphor, from what I seem to remember, a symbol being an embodied metaphor...

[RonBee]

I don't know, but maybe she's supposed to go to bed after she blows out the candle.

~R