![]() ![]() ![]() We learn that Jim went to the same school as Tom and Laura. In one of the disagreements with his mother, he unintentionally breaks Laura’s animal statuettes.Īmanda tells Tom to find suitors for Laura at the workplace and Tom chooses Jim O’Connor, his friend, and asks him for dinner at their place. ![]() Tom hates his job and is dying to leave the family in order to have fun in the outside world, he frequently stays out late and claims to have been at the movies. ![]() Laura’s only comfort seems to come from her music records and a set of small animal statuettes. However, she discovers that Laura’s extremely shy behavior has made her to drop out of college and spends her days roaming in the city all by herself. She is upset that her daughter, who is agonizingly shy, does not draw a similar number of suitors.Īmanda takes her daughter to college hoping that she will have her own family and an occupation. Tom’s mother is from a genteel southern ancestry and frequently narrates the stories of her youth to her children and the number of suitors who wanted her. His father abandoned them some years back and, apart from one postcard, has not communicated with the family since. Tom is an upcoming poet and works in a warehouse. The Glass Menagerie has three major characters, Tom Wingfield, his mother, Amanda and his sister, Laura. ![]()
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