The Glass Menagerie Research Paper

Fantasy World The play “The Glass Menagerie” tells the struggle of a family of three living in a small compact apartment downtown. This can be compare to many families living in our society today. As any mother, Amanda tries to have control over her children Laura and Tom, which causes them to have the inability to communicate with each other. Amanda, Tom, and Laura are living in denial of reality that prevents them from living productive lives together. The mother Amanda, lives with anger due to her husband leaving her for a job on the road. In result, she takes the behavior out on her children Laura and Tom so they do not make the same mistake she did. She aspects her children to be prefect in reality, they are not. In the beginning of the play it sets the stage …show more content…
Amanda is constantly trying to have control over her children’s whereabouts through out the play. Amanda is regularly bombarding Tom with commands on how to cope with daily task. In the beginning of the first scene she is reminding Tom how to eat properly .” Honey, don’t push with your fingers. If you have to push with something, the thing to push with is a crust of bread. And chew- chew! (1383, sc. 5). This shows the reader that Tom is unable to be a grown man the way he wants to with his mother trying to tell him how to eat. Tom who is unhappy where is and tried of trying to satisfy his mother who is a bitter woman, because she only wants best for her children. Tom uses the movies to escape from his unhappy life and seeks adventure. “I go to the movies because- I like adventure. Adventure is something I don’t have much of at work, so I go to the movies. Tom you go to the movies entirely too much! I like a lot of adventure”( 1396; sc. 70). Again, this shows in the eyes of his mother he is unable to make decision of what is

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