The play The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams presents two fairly different people Tom Wingfield and Jim O’Conner. Both work in a warehouse, but both have different perspectives on life and how to live it. Tom Wingfield has become dissatisfied with his life, for he has stopped progressing in work and education. While irate, Tom voices, “You know it don’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?” In the setting of the stage, the viewer can see a picture of Tom's father who abandoned his family which leads to the developing notion that Tom would rather leave his current life than try to fix it. Toms resolve to leave his life behind has caused
