political,economic, and social exploitation. Thio 1985:242, said that there are basic differences in what societies expect of men and women. Even when men
and women hold the same jobs with the same status, they may face different expectations.
According to the explaination above, I am interested in analyzing about Gender Inequality as Reflected in Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie
because in this play the issue of gender is dominant and the play portrayal differences of male and female in terms of gender inequality. Tennessee
Williams’s The Glass Menagerie is great play and it was best play of the season and in this play there are many gender differences that occurred. Although they
resist the roles prescribed to them, Laura and Tom both eventually assimilate to the gender inequality cast by their mother Amanda.
1.2 The Problems of Study
Perkins in The American Tradition in Literature Tenth Edition 2002:1260-1301, show that the relation with gender inequality in Tennessee
Williams’ The Glass Menagerie. Based on the statement above, I finally formulate the problems of study as follows:
1. How are women treated differently than men? 2. How do women not have the same opportunities than men?
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1.3 The Objective of Study
Related to statements of problem, the objectives of the study of the thesis are:
1. To find out how women are treated differently from men. 2. To show how women don’t have the same opportunities than men in Tennessee
Wiliams’s The Glass Menagerie.
1.4 The Scope of Study
In this thesis, the scope of study is limited and focused on the gender inequality as reflected in Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie, that
problem is limited to how women are treated differently in comparison with men and how women themselves can not have equal opportunities than men. And in
this play, women who experience these differences is Laura, who always treated differently by his mother Amanda than his brother Tom. And this thesis, will be
analyze to be focused on gender inequality that contained in the play The Glass Menegerie.
1.5 The Significance of Study
This thesis explains about the gender differences that found in The Glass Menagerie. This study can expand the reader’s knowledge and this thesis can be
one of the sources of information for students. It also can be usefull for the readers so that they can get some important information about gender roles in knowledge
of sociology because I use extrinsic theory by analyze my thesis. By reading from contents of this drama I can conclude that there are social problems therein who
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experienced by the characters, that is the existence of gender inequality that occurred in it. So the readers can understand about gender inequality as reflected
in Tennessee Williams’The Glass Menagerie especially to find the problem how the gender inequality experienced by the characters in the play. I hope the finding
of this study can make the readers want to continue and find desire to reading other literary works.
1.6 The Review of Related Literature
