The Glass Menagerie
Tennessee Williams
From the beginning of the play, Tom tells us that the play will be nonrealistic. Though he states that the play is nonrealistic, we know this due to the play having a narrator, the background music, and the stage set up. Also from Tom's opening speech, it is known of the play being a memory play. So far I am having trouble recognizing what about the play make it different than a play that is not a memory play. There are points in the play such as when Laura says, "Oh..." (1241); this usage of ellipses makes me wonder if he just did not include the rest, or if it signals Laura's difficulty of communicating her thoughts.
The mother, Amanda, is very concerned about Laura finding a gentleman caller. Laura's personality is that of an insanely shy girl, and she does not enjoy communicating with others. Her internal struggle caused her to drop out of business school. Amanda seems to be the type of parent that tries to relieve her glory days through her children, and it is possible that Amanda's talk of all of these gentleman callers she had lower Laura's self-confidence even more. Furthermore, the only guy that Laura said she liked was always too busy for her which may have also contributed to her lack of confidence.
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