This play had catapulted Tennessee Williams to extreme popularity and quite rightly so, for in its entirety this play is a classic tale of despair and hope. A not-so-poor family struggling to come to terms with their difficulties - a lost husband, an anachronistic wife, an ambitious & loving yet flawed son and an unfortunate daughter. The play plays with the hopes of the audience and this family alike and then strangles them with the concluding despair. 
 The Glass Menagerie to me was a perfect portrayal of Laura's society with her being the Unicorn not even trying to fit in with the horses. And then comes Jim, the horn-breaker and guide and Laura learns a lesson. The audience never gets to see what happens to the family - Personally, I think nothing much happens and that was the whole point of the play. Life like a night and candles lit to guide the way must be blown away not necessarily before the dawn. 
 Recommended, preferably in the form of a live performance.