Subsequent years have been less kind to Jim by the time of the play's action, he is working as a shipping clerk at the same shoe warehouse as Tom. Jim was a popular athlete and actor during his days at Soldan High School. Jim O'Connor An old high school acquaintance of Tom and Laura. The unicorn may represent Laura because it is unique and fragile.
She has created a world of her own symbolized by her collection of glass figurines. A childhood illness has left her with a limp, and she has a mental fragility and an inferiority complex that has isolated her from the outside world. Laura Wingfield Amanda's daughter and Tom's elder sister. Tom feels both obligated toward yet burdened by his family and longs to escape. Yet, he escapes from reality through nightly excursions to the movies. He struggles to write, all the while being sleep-deprived and irritable. Tom works at a shoe warehouse to support his family but is frustrated by his job and aspires to be a poet. Amanda yearns for the comforts of her youth and also longs for her children to have the same comforts, but her devotion to them has made her – as she admits at one point – almost "hateful" towards them. The Glass Menagerie was Williams' first successful play he went on to become one of America's most highly regarded playwrights.Ĭharacters Amanda Wingfield A faded Southern belle who grew up in Blue Mountain, Mississippi, abandoned by her husband, and who is trying to raise her two children under harsh financial conditions. After a shaky start, it was championed by Chicago critics Ashton Stevens and Claudia Cassidy, whose enthusiasm helped build audiences so the producers could move the play to Broadway where it won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award in 1945. In writing the play, Williams drew on an earlier short story, as well as a screenplay he had written under the title of The Gentleman Caller. The play has strong autobiographical elements, featuring characters based on its author, his histrionic mother, and his mentally fragile sister. The Glass Menagerie is a memory play by Tennessee Williams that premiered in 1944 and catapulted Williams from obscurity to fame. For the film adaptations, see The Glass Menagerie (film).
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