Mother-daughter relationship

Because of Mr. Winfield's abandonment, Amanda, Tom and Laura suffer mentally a lot. They retreat into their own world of fantasy to escape the strains and tension of the real world.
             (2) fragile: there is a lack of emotional bond.
             The title indicates not only Laura's world but also the family relations. The big problem in this family is that none of them can find or provide any emotional support. The situation of the Wingfields in the first scene is only temporarily stable, and this stability changed into quarrels, reproach and desperation in the following scenes.
             3 Mother-Daughter Relationship.
             (1) Amanda for Laura: love, protection, pressure.
             A experience.
             Amanda was a belle at Blue Mountain, but she ends up marrying a telephone man despite all her dreams to become a planter's wife. She trusts herself with this man only to get abandoned. All of a sudden she was jerked out of her beautifully-imagined life and was thrown into the harsh reality. Weak as she is, she tries to get into her illusion. So, she is still a girl in a sense, but she has to shoulder the responsibilities to raise her two children. Because all of her girlish dreams are smashed into pieces, she wants them to be realized in her daughter. I think she takes Laura as a new Amanda, that's maybe partly the reason why she always tries to ignore Laura's slight disability, because an Amanda's not a cripple. She loves Laura not only as a daughter but also as herself.
             B identity (a double identity): a mother as well as a girl.
             (As I said just now), Amanda has a double identity, a mother as well as a girl. As a mother, she is admirable and loving. She would like to give up the whole world to get her daughter, Laura, happiness and good fortune and protect her from the harsh society. However, when the side of a girl gets the upper hand, she will become willful and silly. She always indulges in her illusion of the 17 gentlemen callers. She will do things the way she likes, never concerning that her willful behavior will make her children unbearable and embarrassing.