The Glass Menagerie [Videorecording] [By] Tennessee Williams; Cineplex Odeon Films; Producer, Burtt Harris; Director, 1994
             My Chautauqua is Tennessee Williams. He was a great writer who wrote many inspiring plays such as A Street Car Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Sweet Bird of Youth, The Night of the Iguana, and Small Craft Warnings. His plays look into the society's passions and frustrations. One of his most popular plays is The Glass Menagerie. This is the story that I chose to read. The Glass Menagerie starts out in a small apartment house where the family is having dinner. The son and the mother soon start to fight and we can immediately see that they have a problem with each other. Then the mother and the daughter start to talk. The mother has high expectations of her daughter to follow in her footsteps and become a gentlemen caller. The daughter tells her mom the sad news of not having any gentlemen callers and her mom is in disbelief. After the son and mother have a fight the son storms off to go see a movie. The mom thinks that he doesn't go see movies but that he is in a gang or doing drugs or some mischievous thing. Later on in he play we find out that the son works at a loading dock. The mother keeps on pressing the daughter about having some gentlemen callers over to entertain them, but the daughter always says no. The daughter was enrolled in a typing class so that she could get a job and help support the family but after the second day she decides not to go. She doesn't go because on that first day she was so nervous about being around strangers that she didn't do well in her typing and almost threw up. She was to embarrassed to go back so she just walked around in the park so her mother wouldn't find out. This is the first time we notice that she has a problem with being around people and start to wonder if that's why she do
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