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The Glass Menagerie Summary
Amanda puts a lot of money and effort into making the dinner a success. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. Tom sees the trick as symbolic of his life. Video: The Glass Menagerie: Summary and Analysis Tennessee Williams' first big hit, 'The Glass Menagerie,' known as the memory play, fascinated audiences for its presentation of one man's vision of his past. Whether or not he watches the movies or engages in some sort of covert activity is debatable. She is especially concerned about what will become of Laura, and pressures Tom to introduce her to a potential husband.
. Amanda is startled by the sounds, and starts to look back at Tom, but looks back at the window. Tennessee Williams describes four separate characters, their dreams, and the harsh realities they faced in the modern world. He has only left her with shattered hopes. He sees their rainbow-colored glass and remembers how his sister used to protect her glass animals. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. Amanda emerges in a gaudy, frilly, girlish dress from her youth and affects a thick Southern accent, as though she is the one receiving the gentleman caller.
Amanda finally senses Tom's stirrings to leave and makes a deal with him - that if he can find a suitable replacement for himself in the form of a husband for Laura, then he can disappear for good. After the fiasco at Rubicam's Amanda gives up on a business career for Laura and puts all her hopes into finding a husband for her. She dreams of her past and of her daughter's future, but seems unwilling to recognize the painful harsh realities of the present. Amanda, originally from a genteel Southern family, regales her children frequently with tales of her idyllic youth and the scores of suitors who once pursued her. He often stays out late at night, claiming to go to the movies. When they're done eating Amanda urges Jim to spend time with Laura in the living room. The question here is whether Amanda wants the callers for Laura or whether she wants them so as to relive her own youth.
This is the same way as Laura. Amanda is furious, and after Jim leaves she accuses Tom of playing a cruel joke on them. Louis, the mother, Amanda, lives with her crippled daughter and her working son, Tom. She is unable to function in the outside world. The curtain rises to reveal the dimly lit Wingfield apartment, located in a lower-class tenement building in St.
The Glass Menagerie Scene 2 Summary & Analysis from LitCharts
She has difficulty in facing the fact that she is a single mother with two children. Tom Wingfield Tom is an aspiring poet who works in the Continental Shoemakers warehouse. When her mother discovers Laura hasn't been going to school, her hope for their future is destroyed, and she becomes obsessed with the idea of Laura marrying some nice man to take care of the family. And to find Laura a husband, she will need to fix the apartment up so that it's suitable for visitors. Amanda accuses Tom of being an inattentive, selfish dreamer and then throws herself into comforting Laura. They light the candles and Amanda suggests Jim to go to the living room where Laura is sitting.
The Glass Menagerie Scene 2 Summary & Analysis from LitCharts
As a parallel to Rose, then, Laura becomes helpless and impossibly passive - rendered to a fate entirely dictated by Tom's own decisions. When Jim arrives, Amanda has to cajole Laura into answering the door, and when she does, the situation is very awkward, and seeing that it is her high school crush who does not recognize her , she flees. She tells Tom that she has suffered and struggled for he and Laura, but that she feels unappreciated by them. Lawrence's performance, to my mind this is a great film with superb acting of a kind that's no longer seen. For example, Laura is only able to live in the present very briefly. As if this wasn't bad enough, Tom further disappoints his mother by taking the money for the electric bill and using it to enroll as a traveling member of a crew on a ship, leaving the family just as his father had done years before. It is his way out.
The Wingfields are seated at dinner. Can Amanda let go of the past and help her children find their futures? Laura's passivity, meanwhile, incurs a tremendous amount of guilt and repressed rage in Tom, who has trouble leaving as long as he thinks of his sister. Psychologically, during the 1940s, the South was still influenced by the loss of the Civil War only 80 years prior. Tom enters the kitchen for breakfast. She starts selling magazine subscriptions in order to earn extra money, something Amanda is sure to bring the men calling.
The Glass Menagerie Scene 2 Summary & Analysis from LitCharts
Williams clearly wants us to associate Laura with the qualities of a delicate ornament that is not of this world. As the dinner is about to finish the light goes out. This lesson will explore the plot and theme of his story, as well as analyze the major symbols and elements of style in the play. Amanda is ecstatic and wants everything to be perfect. Amanda and Tom have a grave discussion on the future of Laura and Amanda suggests Tom to look for some good suitors at the warehouse. If Tom and Amanda can find a husband for Laura, a man who can take care of her, then Tom will be free of his responsibility to them.
