The Glass Menagerie (Edition 3) (Paperback)

from rsubber

Another dolorous Tennessee Williams play. One wants to shake the daughter, Laura, and plead with her to get away from her mother, who enables Laura's withering lack of self-confidence. Amanda's fantasy world is a dark parody of ambition. Love gets lost in the Amanda-Laura-Tom triangle. Jim, the g...

from ALelliott

What seems like a simple story of her mother and her two children slowly unfolds as a devastating psychological drama. Amanda Wingfield lives with her two children, Tom and Laura, in a crummy little apartment in St. Louis during the 1930's. Mr. Wingfield is long gone, but the shadow of his presen...

from deep220

 The Glass Menagerie is a story of longing and frustration. The story is narrated by Tom, who hates his factory job and desires to run to sea but he is trapped being the main support for his mother and sister. Amanda, the mother, is desperately disappointed by the outcome of her life. She clings ...

from StephenBarkley

The Glass Menagerie is a good mirror. It accurately reflects the selfishness of society. That's not to say that it's enjoyable-far from it! The dysfunction of the Wingfield family is painful to read. Whether it's Amanda's life in the past, Laura's agonizing inability to interact with people, or T...

from MissBoyer3

Amanda Wingfield, the matriarch of "The Glass Menagerie," always tells her daughter, Laura, that she should look nice and pretty for gentleman callers, even though Laura has never had any callers at their St. Louis apartment. Laura, who limps because of a slight physical deformity, would rather s...