Mr. Wingfield left his family behind as he went off to seek a better life. Tom often makes jokes about his fathers prior job at the telephone company, and tells the audience that he "fell in love with long distances"(Williams 695). This is his attempt to ease the pain of abandonment by turning it into something humorous. At one point in the story Tom is talking about a magician he went to see and how he got out of a nailed coffin without removing a nail. " You know

Boxill, Roger. Tennessee Williams, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987

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