Character Analysis ˇV ˇ§The Glass Menagerieˇ¨
...mself anymore. Tom didnˇ¦t show any respect for his mother and his erupted emotions took over him. Although Tom obviously showed care for his sister, he was frequently indifferent and heartless. He cruelly deserted her and Amanda, and not once in the course of the play he behaved kindly or lovingly toward Laura, not even when he knocked down her glass menagerie. Tom had always thought of Laura as girl that was different from all the others. He was insensitive in thinking that Laura was hopeless and could not survive in the outside world. Laura Wingfield was both emotionally and physically crippled. As an illness when she was a child, one of her leg was slightly shorter that the other. But that was not the major problem that she had to deal with. What she was having difficulty was that she couldnˇ¦t handle that fact she was crippled; she had a lack of confidence in herself. Laura would make a big deal out of something that was hardly even noticeable. For example, she thought that the clumping of her brace on her leg was annoying and awful when nobody even realized it. But despite of all her problems, she still displays sympathy and compassion for others; she shed tears just because of Tomˇ¦s unhappiness. Laura barely talked in the whole play. She was shy but she was also pure and delicate. Blue rose, the glass unicorn and her set of glass menagerie all represented her in some sense. A girl as fragile as Laura could hardly even handle the days she spent walking the streets in the cold to avoid going to typing class. Basically, Laura was just living in her fantasy with her set of glass menagerie; it was the way in which she hid herself from the world she needed to face. Amanda Wingfield was the mother of both Laura and Tom. She was stuck in between reality and fantasy having trouble breaking the barrier. Although Amandaˇ¦s husband died a long time ago, she was still unable to revive her sense of...