Examples Of Amanda In The Glass Menagerie
The Dreams of The Americans
In The Glass Menagerie, there are many characters who have different views on what life should be like, which results in multiple conflicts throughout this play. The dreams some of these characters have are rather unrealistic and some are could be harmful to other characters or to the own character them self. Also their dreams are different from the dreams people have in society today rather than in the society that they had then.
Amanda, Laura's mother, is trapped in the past and she is stuck with her memories about her old days. Amanda wishes she could turn back time to when she was young and have fun. Throughout the play she mentions that she had many "gentleman callers", in her time and she wants Laura to have the same. Amanda's dream about Laura having many gentleman callers is rather unrealistic. Laura, who …show more content…
He is constantly at the movies, drinking, reading, or writing poetry. Tom is the opposite of ordinary, which is what Amanda is trying to tum him into. Tom realizes that his natural, creative and colorful character are being ruined by his mother Amanda trying to always dictate his life. Tom's dreams were rather helpful to him because they helped him escape his heavily despised job at a shoe factory. Tom's dreamed helped him keep his colorful and creative character he is.
All of the characters in the play have some sort of a negative effect on the characters themselves and on others. Amanda is constantly caught up in her past. She is always dreaming about the day when the gentlemen callers are going to line up at the door for her and Laura. Laura is mentally and physically handicapped. She is caught up in a world of phonograph records and glass animals. She does not face reality and isolated herself from anything and everything she can. Tom dreams about film and literature and tries to escape reality in a bad way. He tries to escape it by running away and not facing his
In The Glass Menagerie, there are many characters who have different views on what life should be like, which results in multiple conflicts throughout this play. The dreams some of these characters have are rather unrealistic and some are could be harmful to other characters or to the own character them self. Also their dreams are different from the dreams people have in society today rather than in the society that they had then.
Amanda, Laura's mother, is trapped in the past and she is stuck with her memories about her old days. Amanda wishes she could turn back time to when she was young and have fun. Throughout the play she mentions that she had many "gentleman callers", in her time and she wants Laura to have the same. Amanda's dream about Laura having many gentleman callers is rather unrealistic. Laura, who …show more content…
He is constantly at the movies, drinking, reading, or writing poetry. Tom is the opposite of ordinary, which is what Amanda is trying to tum him into. Tom realizes that his natural, creative and colorful character are being ruined by his mother Amanda trying to always dictate his life. Tom's dreams were rather helpful to him because they helped him escape his heavily despised job at a shoe factory. Tom's dreamed helped him keep his colorful and creative character he is.
All of the characters in the play have some sort of a negative effect on the characters themselves and on others. Amanda is constantly caught up in her past. She is always dreaming about the day when the gentlemen callers are going to line up at the door for her and Laura. Laura is mentally and physically handicapped. She is caught up in a world of phonograph records and glass animals. She does not face reality and isolated herself from anything and everything she can. Tom dreams about film and literature and tries to escape reality in a bad way. He tries to escape it by running away and not facing his