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The Glass Menagerie Essay

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Due to the spacing of these reading responses for the Glass Menagerie, the amount of content available to read and discuss is rather quite small, so there is not a lot that can be discussed. That being said, things are starting to look rather grand in the Wingfield apartment. Tom has asked a friend of his that works in the factory alongside him to come and spend an evening with him and his family. Amanda is absolutely thrilled by this announcement of a gentleman caller. She springs right away to prepared the rather dreary house for company. The gentleman caller, Jim, was a longtime friend of Tom’s back in their high school days. Laura is petrified upon learning who exactly Jim is due to the fact that she had a rather fond crush of him in that high-school age. In fact, this is the only crush that Laura has ever …show more content…

She regards a lot about how she had many opportunities to marry rich gentlemen back in the olden days of Tennessee. She seems to have regretted the decision to marry Tom and Laura’s father and move to a small, quaint apartment in the urban city. This is especially relevant when she is going on in detailed account about the joys she had in the dress she is wearing to dinner. This makes me think that she has become bitter to this subject of this commitment to marry. She is trying not to let anything of this happen to Laura, so she keeps her available to any gentleman callers that will have her, even though there is possibly only one. In the way she is conveying her lines as well, it is inferred that she is dramatic to say the least. Her tones and the way she acts towards different situations seems to reflect by taking things to the extreme in every sense, even if it does not have to be taken there. I can also infer that Jim seems to be laid back, but also reminiscing on past times of glory. This is only a small similarity between both of these characters, but it is still a

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