这是一部充满感伤的回忆的戏剧。一位西方剧评家认为此剧“开创了西方戏剧史的新篇章。”1945年纽约首演。 剧本以三十年代美国大萧条时期为背景。汤姆是一个鞋厂工人,他和妈妈阿曼达、妹妹劳拉一起生活。由于生活的负担和工作的烦恼,他想离开家,去参加商船队、去写诗,总之逃避眼前的一切。劳拉是个敏感、怕羞、忧心忡忡的姑娘,由于跛足,更使她整天躲在自己的世界中,她只有和“玻璃动物园”(一套玻璃动物玩意儿)在一起时才显得有点生气。妈妈阿曼达担心二十三岁的女儿会成为老姑娘,一心要为她找一个男朋友。这时,汤姆带了一个同事吉姆回家来。 This is a play full of sentimental memories. A Western critic thinks the play “opens a new chapter in the history of Western theater.” 1945 New York premiere. The script is based on the American Depression of the 1930s. Tom is a shoe factory worker who lives with his mother Amanda and her sister Laura. Due to the burden of life and the worries of work, he wanted to leave home, go to the merchant fleet, write poetry, and in short, evade everything in sight. Laura is a sensitive, shy and worried girl who, with her lameness, has kept her in her own world all day long, and she only gets a bit angry when she is with Glass Zoo (a set of glass animals). Mother Amanda worried that her 23-year-old daughter would become an old girl, bent on finding a boyfriend for her. At this moment, Tom brought a colleague Jim to come home.