... paranoia, always trying to please her mother and brother, without having to leave the seclusion of her home and the comfort and familiarity of her glass collection. "Such matters as loneliness, buried and released violence, sex and difference' "the last often signified by physical difference, like lame Laura in The Glass Menagerie- (Kauffmann 152). Amanda Wingfield is described as "a little woman of great ... forget that things change, and instead of hanging on to the past, she needs to move with the times and make more memories. Until she does this, her entire life will be based on these...

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... character of Amanda Wingfield may reflect how Williams own mother may have been. The overbearing and domineering mother, Amanda, spends much of her time reliving her past days as a southern belle. She desperately hopes her daughter, Laura, will get married. The glass menagerie symbolizes Amanda Wingfield's overwhelming need to cling to her past, and her paranoia of being alone, so she ... keeps herself surrounded by the menagerie and her memories. Furthermore, Amanda resents the poverty-stricken neighborhood, in which she lives, so much that she needs to ... Williams" characters are al...

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The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams" "memory play" originates after World War II in a dark, dreary alley in St. Louis. The play consists of only four main characters or actors; a mother, brother, sister, and the gentleman caller round out the people. The names given by Williams are; Amanda Wingfield to the mother, Laura the daughter, Tom the brother who narrates the play, and Jim the gentleman caller. The story progresses along the lines of Amanda searching for ... she did. Ever caring and trying to strengthen her family, she becomes angelic at the end when comforting Laura and the audienc...

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... quiet and timid. Amanda is afraid that Laura will never marry, and if Laura never marries she will not be able to support herself. Amanda even goes as far as to have Tom search around his work for a gentleman. "I want you to go home and bring home a gentleman for your sister." "The Glass Menagerie" Amanda is like most mothers out there ... being pushy and harsh with her words. "My devotion has made me a witch, and because of that I am hateful to my children." "The Glass Menagerie" A good example of this is when she told Laura that she was not finding a gentleman as easy as she did becau...

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Symbols of Escape The Characters in Tennessee Williams play The Glass Menagerie are all searching for a way out of their current situation but feel trapped by life itself. The play is set in St. Louis in the mid 1930's, during the depression era. There was war in Europe and a struggling economy in America. The Wingfield family, who lived in an apartment building, consisted of Amanda, Laura, and Tom ... Wingfield. They are all unique individuals sharing the ... . she plays old phonograph records and - that's about all -"(1932). The glass collection was Laura's life and another form of escape i...

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