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The Glass Menagerie as heuristic for explicating nursing theory.

Pilkington FB, Frederickson K, Velsasco-Whetsell M

School of Nursing, York University, Toronto, Canada. bpilking@yorku.ca

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.

Published 7 June 2006 in Nurs Sci Q, 19(3): 190-6.
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