real time‚ goes back to real time at end. Cold weather influences costume choices‚ from coats to the dresses that they must be wearing whenever the gentleman caller comes. III. Tom is the son of Amanda. Laura is the daughter of Amanda. Laura is Tom’s OLDER sister. Jim O’Connor works with Tom. Amanda was abandoned by her husband years ago. No one has a spouse. Tom supplies money for the family working for a show warehouse‚ but aspires to be a poet. Lower-middle class status. 1937 is just passed
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abandonment of Tom Wingfield‚ his father‚ and Jim O’Connor to illustrate the different types of negative emotinal influences it has on the characters. Tom’s abandonment was caused by his feeling of constant attack and complaint from his mother‚ Amanda. His mother always argued
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In this scene‚ Tom leaves to the fire-escape and ponders on where he grew up. Amanda eventually joins Tom where they apologize and forgive each other. Tom then tells Amanda that a man named Jim O’connor is coming over for dinner tomorrow night. Amanda is absolutely ecstatic with this news‚ but she is also nervous that she will not have enough time to clean the place in time. Tom tells Amanda not to get too excited because Jim is not coming to exclusively meet Laura. Tom also says that Laura is crippled
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RESEARCH MEMORANDOM (Question 1) Facts: | Alex and Amanda Adams were married 22 years ago and have two children‚ Anne and Alex Jr. On June 2‚ 2011‚ after a particularly fierce argument‚ Alex packed his clothes and left for parts unknown. Amanda has neither seen nor heard from him since. Anne graduated from Wayne State University on May 7‚ 2011. Prior to her graduation Anne had been a full time student. During the year‚ Anne (born October 5‚ 1990) earned $7‚000 from a life guarding job and
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maintain united after the absence of their father. Amanda‚ the mother of Tom and Laura relies on her son to keep up with the bill and on her daughter to get her education and find a husband. Meanwhile all tom wants to do is leave as his father did so he could seek adventure and Laura has dropped out of school and is trying her best to exclude reality. This dramatic play is full of deception and is used as a motif throughout. Laura deceives her mother‚ Amanda‚ by dropping out of school and pretending to
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Rooms Division Management Case Study#3: 10% Total /40 MarksThe Safe Deposit Box That Wasn’t Amanda stood beh... Rooms Division Management Case Study#3: 10% Total /40 Marks “The Safe Deposit Box That Wasn’t Amanda stood behind the front desk of the Metropolitan‚ a 376-room upscale hotel‚ and tried to ignore the butterflies in her stomach. It was just her second day on the job‚ and there was so much to remember! She glanced over at Ron‚ standing at the other end of the
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Why Tom Is Unhappy and‚ Eventually‚ Leaves In the play‚ The Glass Menagerie‚ the main character Tom Wingfield lives with his mother Amanda and his sister Laura. Tom’s father abandoned the family many years ago‚ leaving them without a provider‚ thus causing his son Tom to become the main source to support for the family. Tom works at a warehouse and has for many years‚ but the job is unappealing to him. He craves adventure and wants to follow his dreams to become a writer. However‚ his mother does
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woman‚ Amanda Bartolome‚ to have a distinctive identity in the current society. In the beginning of the story‚ the protagonist‚ Amanda Bartolome was just a mere housewife serving coffee to her husband‚ and taking care of the needs of her schooling children. As the novel evolved‚ Amanda witnessed the gradual transformation of her children especially Jules. Jules’ deep interest in nationalistic songs drove him to join activist movements fighting against the evils of the government. Amanda became concerned
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named Amanda White who I interviewed for this paper. Amanda is thirty three years old and has been a lesbian her whole life. Amanda says she can remember even far back as grade school when she remembers she was fascinated in a special way by a particular girl in her class. Amanda says her thoughts were not particularity sexual she was only eleven years old at the time. Amanda can say that she also remembers having thoughts about this girl and weather not if she thought she was cute. Amanda says she
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throughout the play‚ including control in Amanda‚ Laura and Tom’s lives. Laura is one of the characters that gets a lot of control in her life‚ by her mother Amanda. “We have to be making some plans and previsions for her. She’s older than you.” (Williams 763) Amanda is the one speaking in the quote above‚ she is speaking to Tom. Amanda is saying that they need to be making plans and changes in Laura’s life. She technically wants to control Laura’s life. Amanda is the mother of Tom and Laura but she
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