#6 How do the physical effects... reinforce the meanings and contribute to the emotional effects?

Tennessee Williams utilizes music throughout his play to indicate certain emotions characters are feeling. As Jim O'Connor evaluates Laura, music is key in understanding her fleeting and deep emotions surfacing:"Has anyone ever told you you were pretty? (Pause: music. LAURA looks up slowly, with wonder, and shakes her head)..." From this scene inparticular, one can deduce that Laura's emotions and concerns and passions lie beyond her glass collection.

Williams introduces and explains symbols in his play quite blantantly. For instance, the unicorn, Laura's favorite piece, is broken by Jim. Of course Jim broke the figure Laura called "unlike the others," because he ultimately broke her "inferiority complex," and simultaneously her heart it seems. He allows the audience to focuson the emotions through the symbols.

With complete stage directions and explicit stage movements, the audience learns more about
the characters more from the background and less from the characters interacting with each other.