He de-horns her unicorn. Then he winds up going to a traveling carnival and seeing the great Malvolio the Magician and coming home and telling, Laura all about this man, and how he escaped from inside of a nailed shut box. 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.
Tom had becomes tired of seeing his sister sitting around playing with glass dolls that represent a real world to her. Therefore, Tom decides to bring home a friend from work, Jim. Now if the two were such good friends then Tom would have known that Jim was already promised to be married, but this twist just allows the plot to thicken that much more. He brings the news to Amanda who embraces it like a woman being given the key to her new life. She immediately begins preparations for the calling, which is to happen on the next day. All the oldie, goldy things that have been locked up in the trunks since Amanda's wedding are now all ornamented on the walls and the fine tablecloths are brought out as well to entertain the guest to the extreme. The play ends up going along with the women readying the house for the caller, but when Jim does finally arrive with Tom, Laura is afraid to go and answer the door because he is the one she fancied in high school. Amanda's harping finally coerces her to be polite and greet the both of them, and after saying hello she goes back to playing her instrument, the victrola. The night is going all to well and Jim actually even gives Laura a kiss, but upon this he finds that he can't keep anything from her and informs that he is already promised to another. This news is Earth shaking especially to Amanda who had hoped and thought that this was the one for her little Laura. Tom's narration towards the end leads us to believe that he wanted to trick his mother for all the meanness she had been displaying towards his "movie watching" which he claimed to be opium den smoking, and the play ends showing us many of the great miseries in the lives of poorer people during those times.