The Glass Menagerie Theme

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Laura and Tom for her to raise. he left so he could go and "skip the light fantastic" (1900). Amanda knows all of what is going on with her children. She watches her children very closely with every eye movement. There are many times
when it appears that she lives vicarious into her children's lives, making their every move and decision hers too. In doing this all of her children's accomplishments and failures become hers as well. Amanda is also very confused by the lack of "gentleman callers" (1902) that were significant in her life when she was young are not calling for her daughter. Then when Laura does not get any callers Amanda does not recognizes that at all. So instead Amanda imagines they are not calling because of some type of natural disaster, very wanting to admit that Laura will never be as popular as she was growing up at "Blue mountain" (1903). When Amanda had to face Laura's dropout from the business college, Amanda thinks "what is going to become of us" (1904). She ...

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a symbol of her crippling shyness. Her defect makes Laura physically
crippled and so does her shy personality and this makes Laura also a social cripple. When in the scary spotlight of the public eye, she then suffers from severe nervous indigestion. Laura is like one off the pieces in her glass collection; she is very delicate and also fragile, to only be placed on a shelf and only looked at not touched. The glassware and Laura are unable to withstand the bumps and busyness of the outside world. Laura is aware of her mother's goals for her but makes them not important to her at all. What is important to Laura is the comfort and feelings of continually unity of her family. During ...

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