Tom Wingfield proves to be trapped in the life he's living, yet he is searching for a means of escaping. He says he is bored with "the movies" and wants "to move". Just like Laura uses her glass collection as an escape from the awful reality the siblings live in, Tom uses the movies. He is constantly complaining about his family life and he is always attempting to leave, even if it is late at night. However, it is believed that he stays to take care of his crippled sister, Laura. It is made clear that Tom has had enough of his mother by the way he constantly lashes out at her and threatens to leave, yet he stays. He says to his mom: "Look! I’ve got no thing, no single thing…in my life that I can call my OWN! Everything is…Yesterday you confiscated my books!" (3.11, 3.13, 3.15, Tom). Also, he admits, not to his mother but to Jim, that he has used the electric bill money on something of his own, a hint that he is making moves to move on. Tom also believes that "man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!" (4.76, Tom). After all of the hints of escaping, Tom finally leaves after convincing Jim, his coworker and ex-potential gentleman caller for Laura, that the warehouse life isn't for them, claiming they should rise above the mediocre life.