The Glass Menagerie is a play by Tenessee Williams, brother of Kentuckistan, Idaho, and Arkansas Williams. The only noticeable achievement of his other siblings is that Arkansas managed to break the law numerous times, destroy the healthcare system, and sell nuclear secrets to China. It is a "memory play," which means nothing. The time is the year square-root-of-negative-one (A.D.). The major theme is escape, as evidenced by Tom's last line of the play: "Ha Ha... sucks to you Laura!!!" Or something to the degree of candelabras, or ghosts, or haunted memories. The play contains these themes: