An open music box with a ribbon of silver light rising from it on a plum cloth.

Original artwork, not a still

The Glass Menagerie ‧ 1944

Tom

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Remembering the past, the speaker says, feels like a scene with a soundtrack: events seem to unfold with music behind them. It suggests memory softens and dramatizes what happened, giving the past a melody it may not have had.

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