... larger level, that coffin can be seen as membership in the "fundamentally enslaved section of American society" that Williams describes in the stage directions. The Wingfield's apartment does not have a balcony or porch; it has a fire escape landing. This is no accident. Turning once more to the stage ... fires" of her family's desperation. And it is Laura, crippled physically but much more so emotionally, for whom there is no escape. Tom and Amanda have a brief exchange about instinct versus civilized adulthood. Tom yearns for true adventure: "Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fig...

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• Grade Level: High School

... manipulation, and subservience. The playwright demonstrates Tom as a subservient male who is unhappy with his life. Williams displays Amanda as a manipulative well-spoken Southern woman who cannot let go of her past. The writer expresses Laura as a dependant female with fragile emotions. Laura Wingfield portrays a dependent female; whose crippled leg foreshadows the crippling of her emotions and her ability to communicate with ... becomes frightened to see him. Laura acts so frightened that she tells Amanda that she will "have to excuse her, she won"t come to the dinner table," when Jim ...

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This play takes place in the mid forties. It is about a mother, Amanda Wingfield, a daughter, Laura Wingfield, and a son, Tom Wingfield. There are five characters in this play. The other character is a friend of Tom's, Jim O"Connor. Amanda was always successful with men when she was younger. She was always getting proposals from rich and famous boys. She ... Tom. He is dating a girl named Betty and they are engaged. He is brought to the Wingfield home as a gentlemen caller, and when Top brings him home, he is unaware that he is going to be married. Amanda always complains that Laura just sits...

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... 1937. " The Glass Menagerie" is a memory play drawn from the narrator, Tom Wingfield played by Michael A. Newcomer. Tom Wingfield who is also a character in this play is an aspiring poet who works in a shoe warehouse to support his mother Amanda played by Darrie Lawrence, and his sister Laura played by Christi Craig. Jim O' ... Connor played by Derek Phillips is the guy from high school who Laura had a devastating crush on and who now works with Tom at the warehouse. There is also a fifth character Mr. Wingfield, Tom and Laura ... 's father who ran off years ago and felled in love with l...

• Word Count: 746
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• Grade Level: High School