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(Williams ). In the warehouse, Tom does not find any satisfaction at all¾“I’d rather somebody picked up a crowbar and battered out my brains¾than go back mornings!” (Williams )¾let alone amiable, intimate friendship or companionship.
Even more stifling to his poetic creativity is his home where Amanda, prompted by her motherly solicitude and her fear for the family’s sole source of income, is the major obstacle to his creative concentration. Home is more like a cage as oppressive as the warehouse by Amanda’s austere parental control and over-protectiveness (Ng). During meals, she insists that he listen to long sermons such as “Honey, don’t push with your fingers. If you have to push with something . . .” (Williams ). As Tom reaches for a cigarette, she complains, “You smoke too much!” (Williams ). Unable to tolerate Amanda’s failure to understand his needs and her smothering affection, Tom ends up turning to movies, ...

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(Williams, 190). Tom realizes that he “was valuable to him [Jim] as someone who could remember his former glory” (Williams, 190). Jim reminisces about his lead in the operetta and Laura asks him to sign her program. He signs it “with a flourish” (Williams 218). Only as Jim enters the Wingfield’s illusory world, can he become this high school hero again. Subsequently, Jim regresses to his high school days of wooing women as he woos innocent Laura by dancing with her and kissing her. While this might as well be an illusion, the situation’s reality is that Jim is engaged. Unlike the Wingfields, Jim can only live temporarily in the past. Thus, he ...

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