Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie writing assignment 3. ... The novel ‘The Glass Menagerie’ by Tennessee Williams tells a story about a disillusioned woman, Amanda Wingfield, living together with her poetic son Tom and slightly crippled daughter Laura in the quiet despair of the Thirties in America. ... Her great passion is her Glass Menagerie, a collection of glass, which are very delicate and vulnerable animals. ... Her compassion with the Glass Menagerie is shown in a dialogue with her first (and in the novel the only) gentleman caller: “JIM: so what are you doing now?