The Glass Menagerie: Ignoring Problems Of The World

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one? You must be joking!” (35). Amanda is constantly trying to set up a caller for Laura everywhere that she goes. For Amanda it becomes and obsession. She also is upset that when they finally do get a caller that it has been the first one to the house “It’s a terrible, dreadful, disgraceful that poor little sister has never received a single gentleman caller!” (74). Finally when Amanda gets her wish she makes Laura so nervous that she becomes ill. When a mother’s crazy attributes and fantasies make her children ill she is putting her own dreams for her children before her own.
Amanda’s husband left her with her children sixteen years ago; she allows his absence to still hang over her like a black rain cloud. She likes to speak of him with disgust and spite but she is always mentioning him and what he has left behind to remind her of him, “Eternally play those worn out phonograph records that your father left as a painful reminder of him?” (42). Her son tom begins to feel ...

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