shows by her consistently accusing Tom of being selfish. Amanda is psychologically a good case study on the borderline personality. Her highs, such as her excitement over a gentleman caller, and her lows, such as blaming Tom for all failures in their pre

7. Across the street from the Wingfield apartment is the Paradise Dance Hall. Just the name of the place is a total anomaly in the story. Life with the Wingfields is as far from paradise as it could possibly be. Laura appears to find solace in playing the same records over and over again, day after day. Perhaps the music floating up to the apartment from the dance hall is supposed to be her escape, which she just can't take. The music from the dance hall often provides the background music for certain scenes, The Glass Menagerie playing quite frequently. With war ever present in the background, the dance hall is the last chance for paradise. Tom fails to survive in the present because he is always trying to live through the past. However, the past no longer exists, causing him distress in his journey through life. Tom is unsuccessful with his job at the warehouse, and cannot seem to fit in with the outside world. These personal downfalls in life drive Tom into a life of poetr!

almost forcing him out, but not without laying overpowering guild trips on him. Tom leaves, but his going away is not the escape that he craved for so long. The guilt of abandoning Laura is overwhelming. He cannot seem to get over it. Everything he sees is a reminder of her. Tom is now truly following in the footsteps of his father. Too late, he is realizing that leaving is not an escape at all, but a path of even more powerful desperation.

sent life, marks her as an individual desperately needing professional psychological therapy.

4. Jim was basically the all around nice guy. He was friendly to everyone, and an example of this is that he called Laura "Blue Roses." He was being friendly when he nicknamed her that, but otherwise they didn't really talk to each other. That was basically under the only circumstances that they actually talked. The only reason that Jim asked Laura what was the matter in the first place, was because she was out of school for a long time and he was just a little concerned like anyone, that the "all around nice and friendly type" of person, would do. Jim was confident about himself all throughout high school. Laura was not. Evidence to prove Jim's confidentiality in himself is when Tom is telling us about Jim, "He seemed to move in the continual spotlight. He was always running or bounding, never just walking. Evidence from the text to prove Laura wasn't very confident in herself, is when she says, "Yes it was so hard for me, getting upstairs. I had that brace on my !

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