Well the most obvious and simple interpretation is that it's about a troubled, suicidal teenager trying to escape overbearing parents (or specifically, mother), find love and start living their life. Sounds very autobiographical. The title, though, is interesting. I like the explanation about Laura from The Glass Menagerie. As for Virginia Woolf's essay, it is a feminist essay, and it deals with the question - if Shakespeare had a sister, could she become a great writer like he did? In other words, it is about the fact that there haven't been that many female writers as male ones, and the reason being that society doesn't (and especially didn't in the past) favour women dedicating themselves to literature, arts etc.
Well the most obvious and simple interpretation is that it's about a troubled, suicidal teenager trying to escape overbearing parents (or specifically, mother), find love and start living their life. Sounds very autobiographical. The title, though, is interesting. I like the explanation about Laura from The Glass Menagerie. As for Virginia Woolf's essay, it is a feminist essay, and it deals with the question - if Shakespeare had a sister, could she become a great writer like he did? In other words, it is about the fact that there haven't been that many female writers as male ones, and the reason being that society doesn't (and especially didn't in the past) favour women dedicating themselves to literature, arts etc.