title: The Glass Menagerie as heuristic for explicating nursing theory.
abstract: Tennessee Williams' play, The Glass Menagerie, is interpreted through the lens of two different nursing theories, the Roy adaptation model and the human becoming theory. In the Roy adaptation model interpretation, adaptive levels of reality testing and stimuli that instigate withdrawal are explored, while in the human becoming theory interpretation, the themes of meaning, rhythmicity, and contranscendence are explicated.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, York University, Toronto, Canada. bpilking@yorku.ca
authors.forename: F Beryl
authors.initials: FB
authors.lastname: Pilkington
authors.forename: Keville
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Frederickson
authors.forename: Martha
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Velsasco-Whetsell
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D004324:Drama / Q000266:history*; D005086:Existentialism / Q000266:history / Q000523:psychology; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D005201:Fantasy; D006240:Happiness; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006803:Human Development; D006801:Humans; D008093:Literature, Modern / Q000266:history*; D008513:Medicine in Literature; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009742:Nursing Theory; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing / Q000266:history; D011936:Reality Testing; D013561:Symbolism