Your analysis of Amanda Wingfield in the play “The Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams is veracious! Amanda Wingfield was apparently self-indulgent in her younger years and she will tell this to anyone that will listen. For example, she states “One Sunday afternoon in Blue Mountain - / your mother received – seventeen! – gentlemen callers! (1.1.83-84) this proves that she was self-indulgent, because she loves to repeatedly tell her children about the seventeen men that desired her! She never refers to herself in the present time as perfect, because she obviously chooses the wrong man to marry; he was an alcoholic and abandoned her and her children. Her focus was now on Tom and Amanda to be perfect, to make up for her own mistakes, but
