... When life in this tenement world becomes unbearable, she recalls the days of her youth when she lived at Blue Mountain and had seventeen gentlemen callers in one Sunday afternoon. Indeed, this story has been told so often that it is no longer an illusion and instead has become a ... a "slight disadvantage" which is "hardly noticeable". Amanda does not wish to see how Laura's physical deformity affects Laura and causes her the inability to go out, complete the business course and interact socially. Despite Laura's obvious short-comings, Amanda chooses to pretend that there is still hope fo...

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• Grade Level: High School

... happiness in her memories of youth and used theses memories to escape the dreadful situation she was now living. In the beginning of the play, Amanda describes a vivid memory of receiving gentleman callers to her home. "One Sunday afternoon in Blue Mountain - your mother received - seventeen! - Gentlemen callers! Why, sometimes ... home a gentleman caller so he may meet his sister. As Amanda prepared for the arrival of Laura's first gentleman caller she dressed for the occasion, it is here we see another symbol of escape as Amanda puts on an old dress and remembers a pleasant memory from ...

• Word Count: 1620
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... I'll be glad, very happy, and so will you! You'll go up, up on a broomstick, over Blue Mountain with seventeen gentlemen callers!" Tom says this to Amanda in a fit of rage. Laura has her own imaginary reality through her glass menagerie her private world, and the breaking of it .The unicorn is Laura's singularity, her return to reality, and her return to ... sparsely." different. The narrator in M. Butterfly does not have the role a database revealing new facts about the characters but to describe the stage and the characters' movements. Once again, it is important not to interpret that a...

• Word Count: 2132
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... imagination. Laura's damaged leg began to haunt her throughout high school. Amanda would tell Laura that she just had "a little defect, hardly noticeable even- although Laura believed the students in her class heard the clumping, and "it sounded like thunder" to her. Both Amanda and Laura exaggerate her handicap, and it tore away her confidence in finding friends, making her very shy and unable to ... a world of her own because she does not fit into the world that has been created for her by her mother. Constant expectations are placed upon Laura by Amanda to be perfect. Amanda dictates...

• Word Count: 1784
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

... imagination. Laura's damaged leg began to haunt her throughout high school. Amanda would tell Laura that she just had "a little defect, hardly noticeable even- although Laura believed the students in her class heard the clumping, and "it sounded like thunder" to her. Both Amanda and Laura exaggerate her handicap, and it tore away her confidence in finding friends, making her very shy and unable to ... a world of her own because she does not fit into the world that has been created for her by her mother. Constant expectations are placed upon Laura by Amanda to be perfect. Amanda dictates...

• Word Count: 1745
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School