"The Glass Menagerie" is a play that contains intense human
             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. His dream is to be a poet and have
             no responsibilities to his family. He works at a warehouse, which he
             doesn't appreciate because it avoids him to complete his dream. He
             detests when his mother tell him what to do and how to do it, sometimes
             Laura is shy and has a low self-esteem. She is compared to her
             glass collection, fragile in every sense. As an effect of a childhood illness,
             she was left crippled, which made her think that she was less than
             everybody else. She avoids socializing because she is afraid of breaking
             up, however this changes when she sees her old crush, Jim O'cconor. Her
             dream is to feel good about herself and to get out of her depression.
             Each character desires to escape from this lifestyle, poverty is what
             The fire escape provides a different purpose for each of the characters.
             From the opening of the play, Tom's addresses the audience from the fire
             escape. The fire escape allows Tom to get out of the apartment and away
             from his nagging mother. Amanda sees it as an entrance for the
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