Friday, January 5, 2018

In The Glass Menagerie, what does Amanda hope for Laura?

Amanda
hopes that Laura will get married to a nice man and settle down. She imagines all manner of
gentleman callers for her and is thrilled when one does finally materialize, in the shape of Tom
and Laura's old schoolmate, Jim O'Connor. However, things do not end the way she hoped, as Jim
turns out to be already engaged.

What Amanda really tries to do is to mould
Laura in her own image, as a popular and romantically-inclined young woman. Amanda endlessly
harks back to her own days when she was a Southern Belle and a resounding social
success,...

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