Now her main anxiety is her daughter, Laura, who is crippled and naturally shy, does not seem to win any gentleman’s attention. Despite seemingly being a budding poet, Tom Wingfield does not find enough time due to his constant worry of everyday preoccupations and penchant for movies that he watches all night. This future worry and not-so-bright prospectus of her son, who is working in a warehouse, has become another constant worry for her. She recalls her glory days when the boys used to chase her due to her beautiful looks and outgoing personality. The play shows Amanda Wingfield living in a middle-class apartment in St.

The cast shows Laura and Amanda, both daughter and mother, conversing with their only male member in St. Amanda is a single mother, whose husband had forsaken the family years back in the past before the play begins. Tom, too, at the end of his tether, at last leaves home.The play starts with Tom Wingfield, Amanda Wingfield’s son recalling his life. The world of illusion that Amanda and Laura have striven to create in order to make life bearable collapses about them. But this crashes when, toward the end, Jim explains that he is already engaged. In spite of her crude and obvious efforts to entrap the young man, he and Laura manage to get along very nicely, and momentarily Laura is lifted out of herself into a new world. Jim, the caller, is a nice ordinary fellow who is at once pounced upon by Amanda as a possible husband for Laura. The crux of the action comes when Tom invites a young man of his acquaintance to take dinner with the family.

She is crippled, and this defect, intensified by her mother's anxiety to see her married, has driven her more and more into herself. Tom is driven nearly to distraction by his mother's nagging and seeks escape in alcohol and the world of the movies. Amanda strives to give meaning and direction to her life and the lives of her children, though her methods are ineffective and irritating. Louis apartment with her son, Tom, and her daughter, Laura. A drama of great tenderness, charm and beauty, THE GLASS MENAGERIE is one of the most famous plays of the modern theatre.Īmanda Wingfield is a faded, tragic remnant of Southern gentility who lives in poverty in a dingy St.

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