... wonders in a hopeless tone what will become of them if Laura refuses a "business career"; will they play with the glass menagerie and listen to Father's old records all day? Will they become begrudged spinsters dependent on some in-law? The alternative is marriage. Laura becomes uncomfortable. Didn't Laura ever like a boy ... is worried seeing Tom stay out late like his father once did. Where does he go at night? Tom reiterates that he goes to the movies. He needs the adventure that is so patently absent in his career: "Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those i...

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• Grade Level: High School