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 * The play is set in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.
 * It was during the great Depression.
 * //The Glass Menagerie// was actually reworked material from one of Williams' short stories, "Portrait of a Girl in Glass".
 * 1945 won the prestigious New York Drama Critics Circle Award.
 * In this "memory play", the time scheme moves freely between the past (the 1930s) and the present (1944-1945).
 * //The Glass Menagerie// was Williams's first successful play