THE GLASS MENAGERIE PART 2

Throughout the story of, "the glass menagerie," I found a main theme in the play of disappointment. Many of the characters proved to have unfulfilled dreams and hopes of what their future life had in store but only fate determines how the outcome will be. Every story doesn't end happily and the characters in the story were pretty unhappy with how things flowed. In scene 6-7, Amanda was ready for her daughter to meet callers and prepares the house for Laura's call guy to come. The guy who was supposed to meet Laura was an acquaintance of Toms named Jim(a coworker at the factory and a peer from high school). As the date progressed Laura felt ill and sat alone, then Amanda forced Jim to sit and talk with her and Laura because comfortable with him eventually kissing him. The disappointment came as Jim announced he was engaged, messing up all of the families plans of getting with him. Tom also had plans on leaving the family and venturing off to build a life for himself but felt as he left, he needed to come back and be by to side of his sister Laura. Tom's dream of leaving and living a life fell short in disappointment due to the fact that he could not just leave her. Before knowing that Tom would return, I thought what he had plans to do(leave) was ironic. The irony came as in the beginning they talked about how Amanda's husband left them, which was Tom's father and it was ironic because first the father leaves the family and then his son leaves the family as well. I can bring up a story to self connection because although I am about to venture off to college, I don't think I would ever be able to go to a far college or live anywhere in distance to my family. They are so close to me to even if I tried to leave I'd probable end up missing home and coming back.

This photo reminded of of the two, Laura and Tom, as Tom
couldn't abandon his sister.