![]() ![]() She is also slightly lame in one leg, and she seldom leaves the apartment of her own volition. Laura is a frightened and terribly shy girl, with unbelievably weak nerves. ![]() He works at the Continental Shoemakers warehouse during the day, but he disappears nightly "to the movies." Amanda is a loving mother, but her meddling and nagging are hard to live with for Tom, who is a grown man and who earns the wages that support the entire family. Their father abandoned them years earlier, and Tom is now the family's breadwinner. In 1937 they live together in a small apartment in St. The action of the play centers on Tom, his mother Amanda, and his sister Laura. The narrator addresses us from the undated and eternal present, although at the play's first production (1944-5), Tom's constant indirect references to the violence of the Second World War would have been powerfully current. The events of the play are framed by memory - Tom Wingfield is the play's narrator, and usually smokes and stands on the fire escape as he delivers his monologues. The action of The Glass Menagerie takes place in the Wingfield family's apartment in St. ![]()
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