Amanda Wingfield, the energetic and manipulative southern belle, is also a dramatic portrait of Williams' own mother, Edwina. ... The bulk of the action takes place in the 1930s, in the Wingfield small apartment in the lower middle class section of the city of St. ... All the members of Wingfield family are unsuccessful in accepting the realities of the world in which they live. ... Other characters (Laura and Tom) fear that through relation to others they will be reduced to more reflections, trapped in the mirror of the other's judgment. ... Wingfield in an actual fact "Tom's ...

• Word Count: 3081
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Scenes 1+2 The Wingfield apartment faces an alley in a lower middle class St. ... He sets the scene for the social background for the play, describes his role in it, and introduces the other characters by name. One character in particular, the gentleman caller, Tom singles out as a symbol of unrealized hope. The fifth and final character, the father, does not appear in the play: he skipped town long ago and hasn't been heard from except for a terse postcard farewell from Mexico. ... All of the characters in The Glass Menagerie's are sympathetic: this is one of the play's grea...

• Word Count: 5517
• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: High School