Amanda Wingfield Character Analysis

Amanda Wingfield is the mother of Tom and Laura. She is a woman that caught between past and present. She is always obsessed by her past glory days of their gentility memory before the Great depression happened. Amanda is an abandoned wife since her husband left them for 16 years. Her husband's desertion drags her become disillusioned. She has to be single mother for her two children. She was helped by Tom to fund the family. She is a woman who is trapped in past memory of her childhood and she always worry about her daughter’s future. She is also unwilling to accept her life reality at the present.