d Laura a gentleman caller to rescue her is construed as an actual search for reality, a reality that would accommodate all three members of the Wingfield family: "Down at the warehouse, aren't there some – nice young men?...Find out one that's clean-living – doesn't drink and ask him out for sister!" (Williams 36). Lacking a connection to the outside world, the Wingfields live in perpetual ignorance. Tom, like his father, leaves home with ceaseless flashbacks of Laura stirring in his mind.
             Amanda is simply obsessed with the past, always reminding Laura and Tom of the time when she was younger "One Sunday afternoon in Blue Mountain - your mother received-
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