An essay on the personalities of the main characters, the problems they face and how they deal with them. Includes two quotes directly from the book and is 1300 words long.
The Glass Menagerie is a play that takes place in the early 1930's in St.Louis. There are only four characters involved in the story; Amanda Winfield, her son Tom Winfield, her daughter Laura Winfield, and a gentleman caller named Jim O'Connor. This essay will revolve around the personalities of these four people. As well as the problems they face, and how they each deal with them.
Tom Winfield is the narrator of the play as well as the youngest member of the Winfield family in his early twenties. He is a nice, mellow young man and has almost taken on the responsibility of a father figure at home, as he works to support himself as well as his mother and older sister.
The Glass Menagerie (1973 film)
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Performance Saratov Puppet Theatre "Teremok" «Gla...He longs for adventure and his heart lies in writing and poetry not his job at the shoe company. He is the type of character the reader feels sorry for. He has ambitions but is unable to pursue them because he doesn't want to leave his family. It's as though he feels that leaving would mean he's walking in his father's footsteps, a man who deserted the family years before. It seems like he has a certain soft spot for his sister Laura, and would really like for her to be happy. This is apparent in scene four after a fight with their mother that leaves Tom and Amanda not speaking. After Laura asks him to apologize to Amanda, "Tom, speak to Mother this morning. Make up with her, apologize, speak to her." (Laura, Scene Four, Page 28) he does so as he doesn't want...