Flat Characters In The Glass Menagerie

Each individual character in any story, movie, show, play, etc. personality and traits is what helps bring it to life and make it realist. The different personalities and traits can be categorize as Round (Round characters are fully developed so that they seem realistic), Flat (Flat characters are one-dimensional. Often, they seem like caricatures or stereotypes; they may show only one facet of their personalities), Dynamic (Dynamic characters are those who change and develop over the course of the story. They learn something or undergo a revelation that changes them in some fundamental way), and Static (Static characters do not change, but remain the same throughout the story. In the play “The Glass Menagerie” the Static character is the mother
Whenever Amanda feels the need to escape the reality of the present she beings to reminisce on her past life. For instance in scene I of the play when they are eating dinner Amanda tells Laura to resume her seat because she wants her to stay fresh and pretty for the gentlemen callers (TGM.1.1.5-14). When Laura explains to her mother (Amanda) that she is not excepting anyone; Amanda tells her sometimes they come unexpected and start to recall a Sunday afternoon from her younger days (TGM.1.1.5-16). As you continue to read you learn that she is so determined to have her children live the life she once knew. Even though she knows that they are completely different then her, especially Laura she refuses to expect it. For example in scene II when Amanda finds out that Laura has dropped out of Rubicam’s Business College it is difficult for her to cope with. She and Laura discuss what happened for Laura to drop out, Amanda expresses to Laura that “Girls that aren’t cut out for business careers usually wind up married to some nice man.” “Sister, that’s what you’ll do!” “Laura in a frightened tone says I’m – crippled” (TGM. 2.2.20-40). Amanda does not like for Laura to look upon herself as a