Plot Analysis
Recently, I read “The Glass Menagerie,” by Tennessee Williams. I feel intrigued when I start to read the scenes of this play. In this play related some the discussion that the family have and the mother is protecting her children. The mother wants her children to do the things that she wants without reproach.
The protagonist is Amanda. Her story is set in the mother that wants her children to have a good future for her children, specifically with her son (Tom). Her character is very protective and manipulative in her own way.
Amanda faces certain forces and pressures. By the decisions her children make and she tries to change to the state they live in now. She meets these forces and pressures by deciding to find a rich man to marry her daughter Laura. As well for her son Tom she decides all the novels and poetry that she likes. You can see this early in the play in the first scene in lines 43 it says; “AMANDA: Resume your seat, little sister, I want you to stay fresh and pretty for gentleman callers.”
The tension rises when she starts to involve her daughter with the gentleman callers. This might leave a reader feeling interested in this play with the resolution of this play.
The play climaxes when Amanda is invited to a young man for her daughter. "AMANDA [very gaily]: Laura, that is your brother and Mr. O'Connor! Will you let them in, darling?."
The falling action ultimately resolves the conflict. Amanda is upset by the man that Tom bringed for Laura. Tom didn't tell her that the young man wasn't good for Laura but Tom did know about it too.This shows two conflicts that are person vs. person and person vs. self because everything goes out of her hands. She never expected this accident.
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