Subjects:
feelings; frustration, shyness, regretfulness, anger, and sadness. The play
is set in the apartment of the Wingfield family. In this cramped, dinghy
place lives three characters; Amanda, Laura, and Tom, who are desperate
Amanda is a shrew, she wants to live through her daughter, Laura.
Her dream is for her daughter to marry to a well-educated man and
support her throughout the rest of her life. Amanda always make
complaining remarks about her husband who had left her with Tom and
Laura. Amanda nags Tom for spending too much time watching movies
instead of working and finding a suitable for Laura. She likes to brag about
how many Gentleman callers came to her house to pursue her.
Tom is the narrator of the play. Hi
. . .
doesn’t appreciate because it avoids him to complete his dream.
Laura is shy and has a low self-esteem. She avoids socializing because she is afraid of breaking
up, however this changes when she sees her old crush, Jim O’cconor. Across their
apartment is the Paradise Dance Hall. However, he discovers that he hasn’t
escaped, but led himself onto a path of even more powerful desperation. He
detests when his mother tell him what to do and how to do it, sometimes
he has to act without pity. She is compared to her
glass collection, fragile in every sense. Her
dream is to feel good about herself and to get out of her depression.
Tom escapes in more than one way, first is the fire escape which
leads him away from his home, then the movies. He wishes to have a
life of his own.
Laura finds an escape through her glass collection.
Bibliography
Williams, Tennesse. Amanda sees it as an entrance for the
Gentleman callers to enter their lives.
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