rds the status distinctions that taught to value. She uses her memories of the past to protect herself as she moves on and faces reality. As Gilbert Rathbun mentions in his essay The Glass Mengaerie: A Critical Commentary, ¡§The memories of Blue Mountain, when she was a desirable young Southern aristocrat with an abundance of gentleman callers at her feet, protected her from the harsh realities of life¡ (43). The ¡§memories of Blue Mountain¡ refers to the happy and carefree Mississippi country life that Amanda once led, contrary to the complex society in the city, into which none of the Wingfields are able to fit in. The ¡§harsh realities¡ results from Amanda¡s displacement from the impersonal nature of the city where she has no social life and in addition, finds it impossible for Laura to fit in as well. Her efforts to engage with the society around her in an attempt to sacrifice for her family results in her humiliation while participating in the DAR, Daughters of the American Revolution, for which she sells magazines as a second job, where she faces humiliation from the subscribers, who deceive and hanging up on her. Trying to convince the subscriber to renew membership through the new serial novel that has just begun. Amanda alludes to Gone With the Wind, comparing the new serial to the famo
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