Amanda is a southern belle who lives with her crippled daughter, Laura, and her working son, Tom, in an apartment in St. Louis. It’s a misery that her husband has left her and the family long time ago. As the big differentia between the past and the present, she unwittingly refuses to change but remain in the past. “I remember one Sunday afternoon in Blue Mountain-your mother received-seventeen! -gentlemen callers!” (428). She is a person who hind from reality by trying to relive her history. W

Tom is most desperately searches escape from his responsibility of the family, and his tedious job by going to the movie, writing poetry and smoking cigarette. Tom is most face the moral dilemma in the play and is the only supporter for the family. However, without her mother’s appreciation of his hard working, Tom lacks of motivation and interests in his daily life. “I haven’t enjoyed one bite of this dinner because of your constant directions on how to eat it” (427) He is being driven crazy by his mothers constant nagging and dissatisfaction with his everyday action. Whenever he suffers from pressures, he smokes. It’s a way for him to release and escape from all the pressures. Also, Tom tries to escape all the reality by going to the movie for adventure. In order words, he is escaping between the reality and his illusion. Every impossible can be possible in the movie world. Theater or movie has become his little own world for him to let his illusion grow. In addition, writing poetry, by writing poetry, he can make up all his desires under his imaginations in order to achieve the unattainable reality.

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