The Glass Menagerie 
     The title of the book, The Glass Menagerie symbolizes Laura’s life. Laura’s collection of glass animal figurines represents a number of her personality. Like the figurines, Laura is delicate, imaginative, and somehow old-fashioned. The Glass is transparent, but, when light is shined upon it correctly, it refracts an entire rainbow of colors. Kinda like Laura, even though she is quiet and bland around strangers, some people that choose to get close to her will see her in the right light. The menagerie also represents the imaginative world to which Laura devotes herself to a world that is colorful and enticing, but based on fragile illusions.
     The Glass Unicorn was Laura’s favorite figurine in the book. The figurine represented her peculiarity. As Jim points out, unicorns are “extinct” in modern times and are lonesome as a result of being different from other horse. Laura too is unusual, lonely, and ill-adapted to existence in the world in which she lives. The fate of the unicorn is also a smaller-scale version of Laura’s fate in Scene Seven. In scene seven, Jim and her dance together and then kiss, than the  unicorn’s horn breaks off, and it becomes just another horse. After kissing her, Jim takes back the kiss and tells Laura he is already engaged with another girl bringing Laura back down to earth. Laura discovers she is just another girl. Eventually, Laura gives Jim the unicorn as a “souvenir.” Without its horn, the unicorn is more appropriate for him than for her, and the broken figurine represents all that he has taken from her and destroyed in her.