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...

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