In Tennessee Williams’s play “Glass Menagerie” the three main characters all have a way in which they like to escape their current place in the world. One way is physical and another more mentally. The daughter Laura escapes to her glass menagerie, the mother, Amanda, whisks away to her past as a young girl, and the son, Tom, to the movies where he dreams of the adventures he will have in The Union of Merchant Seamen.
I believe that Amanda escapes to her past for comfort. Her life did not turn out the way that she had envisioned. She did not marry a planter and has to work for living. She expected to be taken care of by her husband and now she is just some old maid and she is in denial.
Laura drifts to the time when she was a young girl living in the south and she h
Tom’s escape at the end of the play is not complete. He may have escaped his life in St. Luis but he cannot escape his memories. He talks of Laura and that he cannot say goodbye. I think he really cared for his sister and that maybe he feels that he failed her by not helping her find a husband. In a way I understand cause at the end of the play I picture Laura never breaking away from her shyness and never meeting anyone; just stuck in the house moping about her crippled leg and dusting her glass figurines. I’m willing to bet that is what he imagines too. And who would to remember their sister like that.
ad all the gentlemen callers and jonquils she could imagine. She was beautiful, smart; she had wit and was desired by many. She is almost demented by her imaginati
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