... his movies, his writing, and his books; relations are at their worst when Amanda interferes with these. All of the characters in The Glass Menagerie's are sympathetic: this is one of the play's great appeals. Amanda is no pure shrew, and Tom knows this. For all her suffocating pettiness, she is a woman who has been dealt a raw deal and yet whose one true concern ... a bit of background on the gentleman caller whom he brought to dinner that next night. In high school, Jim O'Connor was a star in everything he did, the leader of his class and certain to go far. Yet things had not turned ou...

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• Grade Level: High School