Article: Tennessee Williams's Tom Wingfield and Georg Kaiser's cashier: a contextual comparison.

Tom Wingfield in Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie, a defining work of "plastic theatre," written and first produced in 1944, has a distant relative, namely, the Cashier in Georg Kaiser's Von morgens bis mitternachts, a defining work of German Expressionism, written in 1912, first produced in 1917, and first translated into English in 1920 by Ashley Dukes as From Morn, to Midnight. Each character--Tom and the Cashier--is the mainstay of his family in money matters: Tom is the son who earns a living for his mother, his sister, and himself because his father deserted the family; the Cashier is the conventional head of the household who does, in a mindless way, what ...

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