human tendency to escape reality to avoid unhappiness‚ and the ability to experience regret. I. Parent and Child A. Amanda and Tom 1. Amanda’s imperfections 2. Dependence vs. independence 3. Blame and guilt 4. Embarrassment B. Amanda and Laura 1. Suffocating mother 2. Unheard demands II. Reality and Illusion A. Amanda 1. Living in the Past - Jonquils 2. Living in the Past – Seventeen gentlemen callers B. Tom 1. Magic Shows
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contrast is what pulls the story together‚ and makes it intriguing. I will discuss what the glue is keeping this family all together. The Glass Menagerie shows a family whose views on their lives are on different spectrums. First‚ we have Amanda‚ reality does only wants the best for her daughter Laura and wants thinks having men waiting on her is what creates happiness and her son to know how to be a “man”. In Amanda’s youth we learn she was quite popular
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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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" His mother resembled Laura’s mother‚ Amanda. Williams himself resembled Laura’s brother‚ Tom Wingfield. Williams was even nicknamed Tom in his youth. Plot Summary Tom begins by introducing the play as a memory play of his own memory of his past. He introduces the character. The start of the play shows the Wingfield family eating dinner. Amanda keeps telling Tom to chew is food‚ and Tom gets thoroughly annoyed and leaves the table to smoke. Amanda tells her story of 17 gentleman callers
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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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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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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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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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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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In the movie Aliens ‚ we see various patterns found in society. We see the gender role stereotype competitions and the motherly instinct to go to death to save a little girl. We also come across the conditioning that we have been taught for centuries ¾ that women are weak and should leave the big jobs to men. The director uses the military as a microcosm of our world. Each character plays an important role found in society. As we see each character slowly fall to pieces‚ we begin to distinguish what
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