Amanda Wingfield has gone under psychiatric observation. Her psychiatric analysis appears to be of a pensive and worrying individual.
Nonetheless, Amanda is a strong woman who has been putting up with the worst-case scenarios a person can face in their life. Her husband has abandoned her and their children. She has to live with the fact that her son, Tom could turn out a drunkard and also her daughter, Laura who in life may not achieve much because of her shyness. Amanda is a strong human being even though her family life as well as her own is not much one would thank for.
Amanda constantly repeats of her only true accomplishment to this day. This is of the time she had seventeen gentlemen callers in one day while she was living in Blue M
ountain. This story Amanda brings out repeatedly has conveyed the fact that she is an insecure and a self-centred woman. This is the wall keeping her from accomplishing other wonderful things. She is seeking too much comfort from this past accomplishment, which I believe she needs to let go of. I think one of the many reasons that she is holding on to this past history is because she needs her children to be proud of their mother. Amanda needs to release her grip on this past and move on.
Mentally Amanda Wingfield seems capable to hold on to and perform daily activities. However, if her weakness does not ease she could overstress herself. She should seek counselling as well as find friends to share her feelings. Her weakness can be helped if her two children also pick themselves up an