"The Glass Menagerie"

“The Glass Menagerie” was reproduced by the great Tennessee Williams, but was first written by Eddie Dowling. The story is about a family, a mother son and daughter. Well the daughter, Laura, is crippled due to a child illness. Her legs are uneven and in a brace. She is very shy due to this which I don’t understand because you can’t let life hold you back after one obstacle. She collects special glass things that she cares for more than ever finding a guy.
Her mother, Amanda Wingfield is a confused woman trying to hold on to her past. Her whole life is based on paranoia, which is not good for you at all. She basically thinks something wrong is always happening. She can be cruel but, also very loving. The brother, Tom, who is a poet, works in the warehouse and to stay out of drama basically he acts as if he never cares.
During the play the family struggles with life. Laura is shy and doesn’t get out much and her mother is a nervous wreck all the time. To make matters worse Tom doesn’t come home from work on time always spending time at the movies and the bars leaving the others on their own. Fortunately throughout the play Laura finds a guy with which she has a crush on and he flirts with her. Before the son finds the caller, Jim at work Laura figures out it was a guy she liked in high school. When he arrives like I said they were flirting around and Laura shows him the glass collection. Then they start dancing and when they do they break her favorite glass unicorn. She doesn’t care at first but when she finds out that he was engaged to be married she was very distraught.
When the mother finds out what the son did she was very angry at him but their lives went back to normal over time.