Tom's father, a telephone man, left the family when Tom was eight years old. ... Amanda had confronted Tom and asked him where he goes at nights, and he replied, "I go to the movies because - I like adventure. Adventure is something I don't have much of at work, so I go to the movies". ... This was Tom's way of escaping reality and he lost himself in the adventures portrayed on screen. ... Tom would go to the movies or go out onto the fire escape. ...

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

I reach for a cigarette, I cross the street, I run into the movies or a bar, I buy a drink, I speak to the nearest stranger - anything that can blow your candles out!" Instead of actually leaving his family, Tom uses the movies, his poetry and alcohol as another form of escape from the suffocating feeling he gets from Amanda. Throughout the play we see that every time Tom and Amanda argue, he flees to the movies for a period of time and at times returns drunk. ... At anytime Tom can just get up and abandon his family like his father and can finally have the adventure he's always desi...

• Word Count: 1324
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography

The three can't agree on whatever they"re talking about and the scene end's with Amanda feeling as though she is going to be an old maid. ... Amanda chooses to ask Tom to be the one to find a caller for his sister after he and his mother have another frank discussion and he storms off once again to the "movies". He does so in a rage and on his way out to the movies ends up breaking one of Laura's animals. ... Tom wants to see everyone having a adventures and good times. ... Eventually Tom gets so fet up with his situation he says he's going to the movies, and rages out ...

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

Immediately after handing the broken unicorn over to Jim, Laura resumes with her old routine; she goes to the old victrola and plays the old records left by her father. ... He retreats from his mother and his responsibilities through the illusionary world of movies and alcohol. ... Tom feels that his job is a waste of his life, and states that he is "tired of the movies and [is] about to move!... Even when he finally fulfilled his dream of escaping into an adventure and leaving the strains of responsibilities, the memories of his family haunt him. ...

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