The Glass Menagerie is a play based around a fragile family and their difficulties coping with life. Laura is a girl who is unable to survive in the world outside or around her. There are several scenes that show how Laura has never been able to talk to or make conversation with a "gentleman caller". Amanda, Laura's mother, who continually lives in the past. Laura must feel that she can or will not ever live up to her mothers expectations. Amanda continually reminds Laura of her differences throughout the play. Amanda reflects so much on the past, which haunts Laura in some way. Laura is different from other girls, but her mother, Amanda, will not let her nor the rest of the family accept that she is. Their differences and relationship with eachother causes several problems.
             Everytime that the family comes into a confrontation, something is always brought out about the past and what reflects on their life as it was back then, without trying to deal with their life as it is today. When Amanda finds out that Laura had not been going to school, but instead was going to the park or somewheres else, she felt that Laura was doing that juszt to in some way get back at her or hurt her. "Amanda: You did all this to decieve me, just for the deception?" (scene 2, page 1104) amanda always had something in the back of her mind that mad her feel like people were in some way against her or trying to cause complications. Which is more of some kind of paranioa.
             Amanda seeks for some kind of escape from her own empty life. She did have hopes of marrying a wealthy man but fell in lovewith a telephone man who "Tom: fell inlove with long distances." (scene 1, page 1102) This is one of the mant things that made Amanda live her life in bitterness and paranoia. She constantly is tryign to make her children, especially Laura, into something that she wasn't or never bcame by always correcting them on how to present themsel
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