Amanda

            In The Glass Menagerie, Amanda's isolation in the "bee hive- apartments is the cause of her controlling attitude. Her dominating approach toward her children may in reality be the core of Laura's psychological disarray. Anyone who is sheltered in a minute space for an extensive period of time is susceptible to some unhealthy side effects. Because Amanda does not leave the shelter of the apartments, she continues to treat her adult family as if they were children, she is not aware that not all people are like her, and she constructs and inhabits a false reality to replace the real world existing outside the apartments.
             Amanda's isolation causes her the inability to view her children as adults with rights, desires, and feelings. She does want the best for her daughter. This is the concept at which her controlling attitude is the most predominant. Although her children are mature responsible people, she does not give them the freedom they need.
             TOM: What can I do about it?.
             AMANDA: Overcome selfishness! Self, self, self is all that you ever think.
             of! (1.4).
             Amanda unmistakably implies that her children are inferior. She meticulously pinpoints their deficiencies.
             Since Amanda doesn't experience life, she cannot realize the immeasurable differences among humans. Everybody is special and unique, yet she cannot value that. Amanda's dreams of her past and being the middle of her small town's social scene persuade her to want the equivalent for her daughter.
             TOM: Laura is very different from other girls.
             AMANDA: I think the difference is to her advantage.
             TOM: Not quite all "in the eyes of others "strangers "she's terribly shy and lives in a world of her own and those things make her seem a little peculiar to people outside the house.
             AMANDA: Don't say peculiar.