Lesley

The glass of menagerie starts with Tom’s narrator who tells the main introduction to the story. He hates his life for working in a factory, instead, he loves adventure. However, since he has to take place for his father and support his mom Amanda and elder sister Laura, he could not get the freedom to achieve his dream as a writer. Inside his heart, he would like to leave as his father did, but Laura’s exits as a burden of him lead him to stay. Amanda is a mother whose husband leaves the house. It causes a huge influence on her since everything has changed in her life. So she keeps memorizing her past. But she has no choice for finding a job or marriage due to her age. As a result, she keeps nagging at her children a lot and talks about her seventeen gentleman callers a lot about her past. She is kind of living her own world which she thinks she always does the right things for her children. However, her determinations lead her to fight with Tom almost every day because of little thin...

  Her sound is weak. She is wearing a white dress which is her mom Amanda made for her.   Today is Monday that I quit the business school for several weeks. I could not accept to keep so close to others and especially takes a course. For me, taking courses is really hard. Since I am afraid of answering teachers' questions and staying in the class represents that I will still be alone and stay out of the class. All my classmates will stay away from her since I am a cripple. I am kinds of adapting that situation but I feel wired since that is the strong way to tell me that I am so different, and I could not accept that mother and brother fight because of me. "Just leave me alone." I thought. I do not want to influence others' life especially Tom since I think I am a burden for him. I know that Tom wanna leave. Instead of going to the class, I prefer to walk in the park and think about anything.Today I am observing ants while they are moving their fo...

1. Why does Amanda dress pretty and read a woman's magazine since it is prepared for her daughter?  2. what is foreshadowing when Tom talks about the magical perform? 3. Why does Laura drop from the business school since it seems like she does not want to against her mon? 4. Why does Laura indicate that she is a cripple? 5. What is the function of Laura when Amanda is arguing with Tom? 6. What is the reason that Amanda treats Tom as a tool even though he is also her kid? 7. How can we create a feeling that Laura refuses to communicate with the world when she stays on her own ? 8. What is Tom's behaviors which he breaks Laura's glass represent? 9. What is Amanda's reaction meaning when Tom apologizes to her? 10. Could Jim save Laura from the situation or she will be a cripple like she said?

It is obviously acknowledged that Tom wants to escape from the house. He is drinking and smoking which is observed from his pocket and his hand, but the reason why he still stays in the house and supports them is Laura. Since he loves Laura as his sister. Laura seems like to stay in her own world. The glass menagerie represents her whole life. She would like to stay alone and play with her glass. In the middle of Tom and Amanda, It seems like she could do nothing. Amanda as a kind of annoying role is keeping talking with Laura about her marriage. She thinks Laura is the only hope for her. The only way to stop the situation is Laura's marriage. She gots hopeless for herself due to the age, but she still wears the best clothes she has to communicate with people. She is thinking about her past, her "perfect life" before her husband has not gone yet, but her dreaming life is broken due to her husband's life. The comparison is unacceptable to her. So, she continues fi...

 But the wonderfullest trick of all was the coffin trick. We nailed him into a coffin and he got out of the coffin without removing one nail. . . . There is a trick that would come in handy for me—get me out of this two-by-four situation! . . . You know it doesn't take much intelligence to get yourself into a nailed-up coffin, Laura. But who in hell ever got himself out of one without removing one nail? This is a quote from Tom in scene 4, he returns back to home from the theater and tells Laura there is a magic show which is the coffin trick. As we can say from the book, Tom is a character who almost take place for the father, he supports Laura and Amanda. He is also the only hope for Amanda. He drinks and smokes and dreams that he can escape from the situation. He wants to leave the home like his father. But in the real life, he cannot leave them alone because of the responsibilities that he should take. He dreams of adventure and literary greatness, but all of these break d...