Deanna Regan

Johnston

English 4A

21 April 2016

The Glass Menagerie Post 1

Throughout the play “The Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams, Tom and Laura have to live up to what their mother wants them to be in life. Tom tries to get away from the apartment but the only way is to go to the “the movies” or the “fire escape”. Laura is more quiet but told her mother she has been going to business school the whole time and her mother is not giving up on trying to find her a husband. Even though I only read 5 scenes I can understand why the mother is very hard on her children. She wants the best for her children but is way too hard on them. She doesn’t understand that they want to live their own life. The mother always says “we” when she is talking about her children’s futures. To many people it seems that she is wanting to make their life the way she wanted hers. “Is that the future that we’ve mapped out for ourselves?” (Williams Scene 2). This quote shows how their mother is depending on them to make her life right. By making them eat perfect, to make Laura find a husband and go to school and Tom cannot leave until he helps Laura get a husband.

This picture connects with what people say about the mother not letting them be themselves and live the life she wants. As the picture says “many parents will do anything for their kids-except let them be themselves”, which the mother does not let them do. Laura shows she does not want a husband but her mother keeps pushing her to make sure she gets the life she always wanted.