The Glass Menagerie
Tennessee Williams
After dinner is finished, the power goes out; it turns out that Tom forgot to pay the electric bill. Amanda makes Tom help her with dishes, while she sends Jim to assist Laura. The events between Laura and Jim allow for the reader to expect one thing, but there was a great twist. Laura finally begins to relax and open up to someone. Jim gives her reasons to have self-confidence and hearing these things from someone of such importance to her help her to realize that he may be right. Jim says, "A little physical defect is what you have. Hardly noticeable even! Magnified thousands of times by imagination!" (1280). Though these sentences apply strictly to Laura in the play, they relate to a lot of people in today's world. A lot of people have something about them they do not necessarily enjoy, but these things are usually unnoticeable to other people. Like Laura, it is helpful to hear from someone else that our imperfections are hardly noticed by others. Laura's shyness began to dissolve as she got closer to Jim, and as he told her of how beautiful she really is, which can relate to us today. When we find someone that can see past our imperfections, we are able to slowly oversee these imperfections for ourselves.
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