Danielle Anthony Mrs. Ruiz English III - 1B 9 March 2016 1. When feeling confined, one might feel unsatisfied and have a desire for freedom and adventure. A. Tom’s mother, Amanda, holds him to his home and confines him to her and the family and this allows him to feel as though he has nothing for himself. 1. "Look! I’ve got no thing, no single thing [...] in my life that I can call my OWN! Everything is [...] Yesterday you confiscated my books!" (Williams 21). 2. Tom is not only upset by his mother confiscating his book, he does not feel he has found his place in the world and he does not have anything for himself to be pleased with. B. Tom does not enjoy settling for his job at the warehouse and wants something more. 1."Man is by instinct …show more content…
Tom feels that he was meant to lead a better, more adventurous life than he actually is living and is not able to express his manly instincts at his job in the warehouse. C. Tom becomes overwhelmed with confinement and tells how he has reached a turning point. 1. "I’m starting to boil inside. I know I seem dreamy, but inside—well, I’m boiling! Whenever I pick up a shoe, I shudder a little thinking how short life is and what am I doing! Whatever that means, I know it doesn’t mean shoes— except as something to wear on a traveler’s feet!" (Williams 62). 2.Tom has come to a point in his life where he realizes that there is so much more to the world than what he has been confined to his entire life and he wants to explore …show more content…
After finding out that Laura had dropped out of business college, Amanda worries about the future of Laura. 1. “Is that the future that we’ve mapped out for ourselves? I swear it’s the only alternative I can think of! It isn’t a very pleasant alternative, is it? Of course – some girls do marry." (Williams 16). 2. Amanda uses the term ourselves rather than yourself clearly showing that Amanda felt as though her daughter’s life and future was her life and future as well. B. Amanda only seems to want to plan for the future of her children rather than herself. 1. "We have to be making some plans and provisions for her. She's older than you, two years, and nothing has happened. She just drifts along doing nothing. It frightens me terribly how she just drifts along" (Williams 34). 2. Amanda wants the best for her daughter and feels that the only way to do so is by her and Tom figuring it out for her since she has done nothing for herself yet. C. Amanda wants to plan a future for her children so she knows that they will be well taken care of. 1. "You are the only young man I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes present, the present past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don’t plan for it!" (Williams