Difference Between Amanda And Amanda In The Glass Menagerie

In The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams wrote the character Amanda Wingfield based on his own experiences of life. Williams and Amanda Wingfield are both hard working parents who kept foods on the table. The difference between the two is Amanda only had one job and that’s selling articles for a living. She has very high standards and a smart woman. One sees by Amanda’s private thoughts that her fear of living in the future makes her trapped to stay in the past.
In addition to the first scene of The Glass Menagerie, Amanda talks about her gentlemen callers and how she was a teen girl: “One Sunday afternoon in Blue Mountain-your mother received- seventeen! Gentlemen callers…My callers were gentleman all! Among my callers were some of the Mississippi Delta- planters and sons of planters” (123). Amanda wants to lives in the past of been a teenager because she wishes she was still a teenager with a beautiful
Amanda relies on the living in the past because she deals with a lot of pain in her life. With her husband abandoning with two children and having to survive by herself, thinking of good memories of the past helps her from the bad memories.
According to The Glass Menagerie, Amanda makes a statement saying, “My devotion has made me a witch and so I make myself hateful to my children” (.134). It seems, she hoping for resentment from her children. She wants her children to deny her, so she can stay in her misery. She does not mean anything by it, but the way she shows tough love seems as if she may not have had some to love her growing up. She wants what is best for her children and appreciates them, but she cannot express it