Tracking Characters (Abigail)

The Glass Menagerie play started with Tom narration. For what he described at the beginning of the play they lived in a poor neighborhood. Tom and her sister Laura personality it's so different, I can say that when they are talking to their mother. Laura is more calm and she listens more to her mother Amanda. But Tom is always defending himself from what her mother says about him.

The scene four of “The Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams might leave a reader feeling confused because the mother wants her son to do the things that she wants. She pretends to change the attitude of him and he is upset with his mother. An example of this is in scene four in line 171 it says; “TOM: Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse !” In this line Tomis kind of saying to his mother that he does not like his job.This is interesting and funny because they both do not like Tom’s job. He wants to adventure and do something that he loves but Amanda does not like what Tom lo0ves.

We learn something interesting about one of the characters, Tom in scene four in lines 173, where it says: “Tom What do Christian adults want, then, Mother?.” This is typical of how this character acts in this play, so far. He often seems to be frustrated with his mother because he wants to understand her mother with her questions. He tries the best for his family if it is necessary. But at the same time he wants to be free.

After this part of the play, most readers probably will be looking forward to reading the rest of this play because the discussion that Tom and his mother have about the future can change the perspective of Tom or Amanda. What’s probably going to happen next is that this part can be interesting by the way into the climax. This means that the problem that they have can have a solution or not in their future.

DMU Timestamp: May 06, 2020 21:48