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 play revolves around the Wingfield family, a family caught in a life just outside the reach of happiness. ... Each Wingfield has a different way to avoid reality. ... The unicorn is translucent much like Laura's character. ... Evans 3 Williams illustrates that it can be difficult for people to accept change through the lives of the Wingfields. ... She also tells Laura that she will marry "some nice man," giving Laura a little hope (1415). ...

• Word Count: 1763
• Approx Pages: 7
• 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