The members of the Wingfield family are all unable to overcome that difficulty, and each, as a result, withdraws into a private world of illusion where he or she finds the comfort and meaning that the real world does not seem to offer. Like her children, Amanda withdraws from reality into fantasy. However, she is convinced that she is not doing so and, consequently, makes efforts to engage with people and the world outside her family. Amanda tried to prepare Tom for this personal sacrifice of postponing his dream for his family by telling him "the world is full of young men employed in warehouses and offices and factories" who find "adventure in their careers" (27). Amanda also focuses on convincing her daughter, Laura that she is not cr

ippled, and for Tom to find a nice young friend from the factory for her. As a result of Amanda's past, she was not prepared for what the future was to bring either because of her luxurious carefree Southern genteel life.

Amanda was deceived by her past and by her husband, but now convinced not to be taken again. Being from a prominent Southern family, Amanda received a traditional upbringing with luxuries and an abundance of gentlemen callers at her feet, which caused her to be taken by surprise when the harsh reality came of having to support a family on her own. Amanda has a hard time coming to terms with their new status in society and, indeed, with modern society, which disregards the status distinctions that taught to value. She uses her memories of the past to protect herself as she moves on and faces reality. As Gilbert Rathbun mentions in his essay The Glass Mengaerie: A Critical Commentary, "The memories of Blue Mountain, when she was a desirable young Southern aristocrat with an abundance of gentleman callers at her feet, protected her from the harsh realities of life" (43). The "memories of Blue Mountain" refers to the happy and carefree Mississippi country life that Amanda once led, contrary to the complex society in the city, into which none of the Wingfields are able to fit in. The "harsh realities" results from Amanda's displacement from the impersonal nature of the city where she has no social life and in addition, finds it impossible for Laura to fit in as well. Her efforts to engage with the society around her in an attempt to sacrifice for her family results in her humiliation while participating in the DAR, Daughters of the American Revolution, for which she sells magazines as a second job, where she faces humiliation from the subscribers, who deceive and hanging up on her. Trying to convince the subscriber to renew membership through the new serial novel that has just begun. Amanda alludes to Gone With the Wind, comparing the new serial to the famous story of Scarlett O'Hara. This allusion in actuality is an echo of the Mississippi life with gentleman callers Amanda has lost. Similarly, Gone with the Wind is a story about people losing their old way of life of the South, and the displacement they face as well. Thus, Amanda herself admitted that she "K.wasn't prepared for what the future was to bring" (29). With her charm and social poise in the South, she grew up picturing a household with a husband to take care of her, contrary to the reality at hand, in which she is a single mother with two children. However, as much as Amanda's mind may wander into her past, Amanda herself does continue to manage to accept the present, and to care for the future. As a result, she attempts to enroll Laura into Rubicam's Business School, but when education fails, she becomes desperate to find La

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Approximate Word count = 1915
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page double spaced)