Amanda Wingfield was the mother of Tom and Laura but she was a perplexing character that included numerous features of her identity. She ached to have the life she had as a young lady and with courteous fellow guests and being …show more content…
She couldn 't get a handle on why her little girl was not more like herself in her more youthful years. She constantly harassed Tom to end up what she imagined men to be and not to pursue what she considered senseless longs for experience. She also had improbable desires that would not be acknowledged for Laura by anticipating that she should be a cordial individual with a constant flow of man of honor guests (Odak). Laura’s tie to her make-believe world is as strong as Amanda’s is in the past. Because of her apparent physical deformity, she has become sensitive to what people think of her. Her physical condition, thus represents her mental distress; she is crippled both physically and mentally. In search of companionship, she builds her own fantasy world with her glass-animal friends and with a Victrola and many old records. Laura, however, is more than a prisoner of her own deformed consciousness. Laura retreats from reality just like the rest. She’s so far departed that she can’t even see reality anymore. She has no social interaction, and no one ever tries to interrupt her little world. Until Jim came along. Laura opens up to Jim in a way that she hasn’t done with anyone else. Jim recognizes that she’s one of a kind and has a beautiful mind. If people took the time out to really get to know her they will see the really beauty she …show more content…
Amid his visit to the Wingfields ' loft, he tries to act like a honorable man, yet his narrow-mindedness and self important nature are reminiscent of those of Amanda 's previous spouse. Jim 's enthusiasm for Laura emerges just when he finds that despite everything she recollects that all his "radiant" accomplishments in secondary school. He then practices open talking abilities on Laura, unfeelingly welcomes her to move despite the fact that he knows about her physical condition, and keeps on discussing the force of adoration after he gruffly makes ' Laura extremely upset by declining to see her once more. Tom is not content with his work and longs for turning into an artist. He speaks to the enlivening era of youngsters who are in an urgent pursuit of their actual personality. Tom is intensely mindful of his obligation, not in the conventional terms of being faithful to a family yet in the feeling of human decision. By choosing to split far from kicking the bucket conventions, he has assumed control of his own fate and transformed himself into the speaker of "truth in the charming camouflage of deception." Tom wants to get out of town and start over fresh. He likes adventure, excitement and its hard trying to live that kind of life with an overbearing mother and a special sister. Tom feels imprisoned by his family and wants nothing to break free. The Glass Menagerie closes with Amanda, pointing the