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A character destroys several of these objects after claiming to be a “hired assassin” and calling his mother an “ugly - babbling old – witch!” These objects sit on an “old-fashioned what-not” overshadowed by a photo of a doughboy and behind a transparent (20[1])curtain that serves as the fourth wall. (20[1])The narrator insists (20[1])the world resembles the colorful fragments of these objects, lit by lightning, while his sister (*) blows out candles. A broken one of these objects is given to the “gentleman caller” Jim O’Connor as a souvenir when he reveals that he has a fiancée just after kissing Laura. For 10 points, name these fragile objects that title a play about the Wingfield family by Tennessee Williams. ■END■

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