She likes to retreat to what she feels frees her from this stress, admiring her glass menageries. Whenever she gets the chance, she stares at them, giving them their own individual personalities. “I’ll just imagine he had an operation. The horn was removed to make him feel less—freakish!...Now he will feel more at home with the other horses, the ones that don’t have horns…” (7.5-9). Laura making up the lives of the figurines shows that she spends more time with them than she should. Tom angrily, but accidentally hits the table that the glass figurines are on and breaks one. This is devastating to Laura, “Laura cries out as if wounded ‘My glass!—menagerie’…she covers her face and turns away” (3.26-29). Her time is consumed by imagining this life with these glass objects. She finds comfort in them and they are basically her only friends that she feels safe around. Many people can relate to this type of escape, absorbing themself in an object they find interesting and
She likes to retreat to what she feels frees her from this stress, admiring her glass menageries. Whenever she gets the chance, she stares at them, giving them their own individual personalities. “I’ll just imagine he had an operation. The horn was removed to make him feel less—freakish!...Now he will feel more at home with the other horses, the ones that don’t have horns…” (7.5-9). Laura making up the lives of the figurines shows that she spends more time with them than she should. Tom angrily, but accidentally hits the table that the glass figurines are on and breaks one. This is devastating to Laura, “Laura cries out as if wounded ‘My glass!—menagerie’…she covers her face and turns away” (3.26-29). Her time is consumed by imagining this life with these glass objects. She finds comfort in them and they are basically her only friends that she feels safe around. Many people can relate to this type of escape, absorbing themself in an object they find interesting and