The Glass Menagerie, is based on Tom Wingfield, who recalls the events from a first person narration, Tom is the son of Amanda, brother to Laura, an aspiring poet and a shoe warehouse employee, who was also designated to the father position when his actual father abandoned them. ... "Oh, Laura, Laura, I tried to leave you behind me, but I am more faithful than I intended to be! ... Laura is also unemployed and has failed to attend classes, without a gentlemen caller or a job Laura has little hope for a good future. ... All Laura cares about is her family and her glass menagerie. ... Ulti...

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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. ... This delusion creates a lot of conflicts between Amanda and Laura, to the extent that Laura switches off from reality into her own world. ... Wingfield, so she moved to another subject. ... Jim kissing Laura further compounded this blissfu...

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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...

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The ones which face life in a more realistic way are Tom Wingfield and Jim O"Connor. ... Wingfield, Amanda's husband. ... Wingfield leave home. ... Why does Laura give it to Jim? ... Like the unicorn, Laura is unique. ...

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The Wingfield family, who lived in an apartment building, consisted of Amanda, Laura, and Tom Wingfield. ... We will first look at Amanda Wingfield. ... Wingfield, a telephone man, and left the plantation life for city life. ... Tom Wingfield, the youngest of Amanda's children was the sole provider of the family. ... Laura Wingfield, the oldest of Amanda's children and whom the play is centered around, is extremely shy and fragile. ...

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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 unable to truly escape due to his emotions. ... I turn around and look into her eyes Oh, Laura, Laura, I tried to leave you behind me, but I am more faithful than I intended to be (258). ... Likewise, when he finally does depart from the Wingfield house, he is still unable to fully escape and he remains in the same situation as before. Tom Wingfield yearns for es...

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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. ... Wanting Laura to become independent from her. ... What Laura doesn't see is the glass figurines. ... Jim told Laura exactly how he felt, when he did have to. ...

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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. ... Laura is a shy, fragile girl during most of the play. ... The Settings in the play span from the Wingfields small tenement apartment, to the fire escape, and all over the city of St. Louis as is evident when Laura goes out on her walks. ...

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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. ... Evans 3 Williams illustrates that it can be difficult for people to accept change through the lives of the Wingfields. ... Laura allows her mother to deny change. ... She also tells Laura that she will marry "some nice man," giving Laura a little hope (1415). ...

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In The Glass Menagerie, Tom Wingfield is unhappy with his life as his primary role is to work and provide for his family. ... Clearly Laura escapes reality as she uses her menagerie. Secondly, Williams uses the victrola as a symbol of Laura escaping. ... At this point, Laura finds out that Jim is the gentleman caller. ... The last symbol of escape for Laura is when she fell on the fire escape. ...

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Laura in The Glass Menagerie and Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire are the most outstanding examples. ... In the Wingfields, Laura is the lost child. ... Those glass animals stand as a symbol of Laura herself. ... Jim's appearance as a gentleman caller apparently affects Laura's behavior positively. ... But he breaks it and Laura as well. ...

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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. ... Laura cannot face reality. ... At one point in Laura and Jim's conversation, Jim clumsily knocks over a piece of Laura's glass collection. ... In Laura's case, she needed to be broken. ...

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This represents the "bridge" between the illusory world of the Wingfields and the world of reality. ... For Laura, the fire escape is a way into her world. ... This can be seen when Amanda sends Laura to go to the store: Laura trips on the fire escape. ... The events that happen to Laura's glass affects Laura's emotional state greatly. When Amanda tells Laura to practice typing, Laura instead plays with her glass. ...

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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. ... Jim OConnor is a friend of Tom from the factory who Tom invites to dinner and Amanda treats as Laura's first gentleman caller. ... 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...

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