After his father abandoned his family, Tom Wingfield is left to support his overbearing mother, Amanda, and his painfully shy sister, Laura. ... The fantasy Amanda lives in gives us a greater insight into how delusion revolves around the Wingfield family and how it is a central concern in the play and contributes highly to Tom's decision to leave. ... Wingfield, so she moved to another subject. ... Overall, we see each one of the main characters live alternately between a delusional and a world of reality. ... The characters fabricate things, stories with which to fill their lives. ...

• Word Count: 1567
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The Wingfield family, who lived in an apartment building, consisted of Amanda, Laura, and Tom Wingfield. ... As each character attempt to escape reality, we will examine the symbols, which gave each character an opportunity for escape. We will first look at Amanda Wingfield. ... Wingfield, a telephone man, and left the plantation life for city life. ... Laura Wingfield, the oldest of Amanda's children and whom the play is centered around, is extremely shy and fragile. ...

• Word Count: 1620
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The lifestyle of the Wingfield family has decreased due to the economy and other hardships. The Wingfield family was deserted by the father and left to fend for themselves. ... All of the Wingfields have their own problems; the mother, Amanda lives in her past, Laura, her daughter, lives in her glass menagerie, and Tom, her son, lives in a dream of escape. ... Laura Wingfield portrays a dependent female; whose crippled leg foreshadows the crippling of her emotions and her ability to communicate with people other than Tom and Amanda. ... Tom Wingfield is the main character and narrator in t...

• Word Count: 1745
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Each character in The Glass Menagerie has a need to escape from he or she's life. Tom Wingfield, a main character and the narrator, openly shows the reader his need to escape. ... Wingfield hangs is an attempt to escape her life. ... The character Laura, depicted in the plat The Glass Menagerie, is treated as a fragile piece of glass. ... Anytime a confrontation arises one of the character retreats to the past, never dealing with the life they have now. ...

• Word Count: 1336
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

In Tom's introductory narration, even though there are only four characters in the play, Tom acknowledges, "There is a fifth character in the play who doesn't appearThis is our father who left a long time ago[he] fell in love with long distances; he gave up his job with the telephone company and skipped the light fantastic out of town" (201). ... Tom continues, telling Laura, " You know it don't take much intelligence to get yourself into a, nailed-up coffin, Laura. ... In the end of the play, Tom is able to escape the Wingfield house in a physical sense, but is u...

• Word Count: 1672
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The play consists of only four main characters or actors; a mother, brother, sister, and the gentleman caller round out the people. The names given by Williams are; Amanda Wingfield to the mother, Laura the daughter, Tom the brother who narrates the play, and Jim the gentleman caller. ... Everything now seems to be pointing towards the idea of a grand scheme in the workings by the Wingfield women, but Toms" love for his sister will keep things altogether for the family. ... The characters in the play can be broken down and described as such: Tom seems to be an enterprising person; he doesn...

• Word Count: 1357
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

In The Glass Menagerie, Tom Wingfield is unhappy with his life as his primary role is to work and provide for his family. ... Another character in The Glass Menagerie that creates escapes to avoid reality is Tom's mother Amanda. ... Lastly, Williams proves this main idea of how escapes are created to avoid reality with the help of the character Laura. ... Clearly Laura escapes reality as she uses her menagerie. ... At this point, Laura finds out that Jim is the gentleman caller. ...

• Word Count: 1274
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Cummings Laura is like a piece of her own glass collection: too fragile to be taken from the shelf, allowing her ideals and outlooks to be specifically effected by each of the other characters. ... The character of Laura is extremely vulnerable. ... Amanda Wingfield is described as "a little woman of great but confused vitality clinging frantically to another time and place- (Ritter 179). ... Talk of a gentleman caller was common in the Wingfield home. ... Each character did influence Laura's way of life. ...

• Word Count: 2052
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Characters have certain features that all contribute to the 'characters profile'. ... By doing this, miller creates a character that appears to be a pathetic character whom the audience pity and feel for. ... This represents the "bridge" between the illusory world of the Wingfields and the world of reality. ... But the direction varies for each character. ... When Amanda tells Laura to practice typing, Laura instead plays with her glass. ...

• Word Count: 1390
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Amanda Wingfield, she is the mother of Tom and Laura and often digresses back to memories of her former days on the southern plantation farm and her night with 17 gentleman callers. Laura, she is the crippled and very shy daughter of Amanda who keeps her hard pressed to finding a husband. ... Laura has her own imaginary reality through her glass menagerie her private world, and the breaking of it .The unicorn is Laura's singularity, her return to reality, and her return to her retreat back into her world. . ... Laura is not seeking as hard to escape as Tom, although it would do her some g...

• Word Count: 2132
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School