When Tom fights with Amanda on scene three, Laura is present all the time and hears what they tell each other. Because of her fragile nature, she feels somehow hurt by their words even if it is not directly about her, when Tom goes infuriated, out of the house, and hits Laura’s collection with his coat, she shatters as the glass: “With an outraged groan he tears the coat off again, splitting the shoulder of it, and hurls it across the room. It strikes against the shelf of Laura’s glass collection, and there is a tinkle of shattering glass. Laura cries out as if wounded.” Not knowing that the glass menagerie is the most important thing for Laura, no one minds it braking or pays attention to her when she cries out.
When Tom fights with Amanda on scene three, Laura is present all the time and hears what they tell each other. Because of her fragile nature, she feels somehow hurt by their words even if it is not directly about her, when Tom goes infuriated, out of the house, and hits Laura’s collection with his coat, she shatters as the glass: “With an outraged groan he tears the coat off again, splitting the shoulder of it, and hurls it across the room. It strikes against the shelf of Laura’s glass collection, and there is a tinkle of