Amanda Wingfield Morally Ambiguous Character

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams is a celebrated and cherished play that has affected generations. Written in 1945, the play very well may have been an outlet for Williams to accept what had happened to his own sister. Rose Williams had been lobotomized due to schizophrenia, affecting her brother greatly. While Williams’ family may be real, his characters are over dramatic and eccentric. The characters of Amanda, Tom, and Laura make up an extremely dysfunctional family living together in a 1930’s Saint Louis. By the end of the play, each character has affected themselves and each other. The characters spend the majority of their lives inventing someone who will make the rest of their family members happy, and when these facades crumble,

The photograph of Amanda’s husband is a constant reminder of her husband’s abandonment, sparking her fear of Tom due to his similarities to his father.

In The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams uses the theme of escape to help drive the play forward. None of the characters are capable of living in the real world. Laura, Amanda, Tom and Jim use various methods to escape the brutalities of life. Laura retreats into a world of glass animals and old records. Amanda is obsessed with living in her past. Tom escapes into his world of poetry writing and movies. Jim also reverts to his past and remembers the days when he was a high school hero. Mr. Wingfield is referred to often throughout the play. He is the ultimate symbol of escape. This is because he has managed to remove himself from the desperate situation that the rest of the family is still

Williams’s play is a tragedy, and one of quietude. He once expressed that “Glass Menagerie is my first quiet play, and perhaps my last.” It is a play of profound sadness, and through relationships between characters, portrays the “cries of the heart.” There is no cry more powerful that the cry and inner desperation of the heart. Williams’s has very little social context, but rather focuses on the conflicts within a domestic family. Such a focus is powerful, and the playwright expresses this power and importance implicitly through the estranged relationship between Amanda and Tom Wingfield.

The glass menagerie symbolizes Amanda Wingfield's overwhelming need to cling to her past and her fulfilled fear of being alone.  Amanda resents the poverty-stricken neighborhood in which she lives so

    Tennessee Williams has a gift for character. Not many playwrights do, and even fewer possess the unique ability to craft a character as paradoxical and complex as Amanda Wingfield. In The Glass Menagerie, Amanda is a very difficult character to understand because of her psychological disposition. Williams realizes this and provides the reader with a character description in hopes of making the character more accessible to meticulous analysis.

Amanda needs Laura to get married because Amanda had internal pain from when her husband left her and she didn't want her to go through the same thing. Tom told Amanda about a gentleman caller he got for Laura. Amanda's husband used to drink and she is very self-conscious about not wanting Laura's gentlemen callers to do the same. Laura has no autonomy because of Amanda.

The author ,Jerry spinelli use actions to improve one of the character, Amanda beale by showing her friendliness in Maniac Magee.I say these because the author improved amanda beale to be a loving character not only to maniac but to every other character like her brother and sister.Amanda beale showed friendliness to maniac by saving him from Mars bar and supported him on who tore her book.This shows that Amanda beale cared about maniac and knows what Mars bar can do.Another place where Amanda beale showed kindness is when she accommodated maniac to her home.She also introduced maniac to her family.The author also introduced Amanda friendliness is when she gave Maniac her bed when he had nowhere to sleep at the beales.She offered

“The Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams, was written in the early forties but could be misconstrued as a present-day play, because of the family dynamic that has changed since the forties but has not been completed replaced. In this play, we are introduced to Tom Wingfield who is the breadwinner for the family, which consists of his mom and sister. Amanda Wingfield who is an overbearing mother that knows no boundaries, and Laura Wingfield who is the sweet, and embarrassingly shy daughter of Amanda. Their family dynamic is like most of ours. The mother loves her kids dearly but struggles with letting go of her old identity, the daughter who allows her disability to determine her happiness and the brother who is obligated to work but would rather drink and party his money away. I’m sure many of us can relate to this family in some form. My favorite character in “The Glass Menagerie” is Laura. I love Laura because I can relate to her in more than one way. I was a shy individual most of my life, but once people got to know me they realized I was no different from them. In the following paragraphs, I will share Laura’s character with you, the similarities between Laura and the glass unicorn and I’ll tell you how the glass unicorn represents Laura.

“A pistol pressed against his son’s temple. A dark hand came into view, then an arm. Then a man came from behind the door and lifted his finger to his lips.”

Amanda Wingfield and Linda have several responsibilities towards their family. Amanda has lost her husband, strife to control her children, Tom and Laura, and becomes a stronger parent. While Linda's husband has no concerned household, this means must become the caring and active parent in the family. Linda's husband, Willy died in the "Death of a Salesman," this puts her situation as a mother is exactly as Amanda in "The Glass Menagerie." Amanda and Linda have expectations for their children could make life more fulfill and happy. In the plays, the women are manipulated of the expectations of their husbands. In the "Death of a Salesman," Linda's independent thought comes from her husband and only expect her sons, Biff and Happy to make their

Because she knows that Tom is not a strong man. In another word to say, Amanda is selfish and hypocrite.

In Tennessee Williams’, “The Glass Menagerie” Amanda was a woman who liked to reminisce about the past in order to escape from reality. Amanda was not wicked but intensely flawed. Her failures were centrally responsible for the adversity and exaggerated style of her character. Certainly, she had the endurance and heroism that she was able to support her children when her husband was gone. In her old life, she was once a Southern Belle with a genteel manner who lived on Blue Mountain. This was a place where Amanda’s version of the good old days back when she was young and popular. Amanda was full of charm in conversation that she managed to have seventeen gentlemen caller in a single day.

The Glass Menagerie is a play set in the 1930s, and the 1930s was an era where society expected women to live a domestic life. According to a journal titled “‘Women Who Have No Men to Work for Them’: Gender and Homelessness in the Great Depression, 1930-1934” by Elaine S. Abelson, “Women, unlike men, have never been fully detached from family, domestic life, and a quasi-dependent role” (106). This quote demonstrates that women have long been family-oriented, homebound, and reliant individuals. It is significant because it clearly depicts societal expectations for women in the 1930’s. During this time period, women felt oppressed because society wanted them to stay home, care for the children, cook, clean, and maintain the household; they were subservient to men. In general, a woman was not encouraged to work outside of her home because men were the traditional breadwinners. As a result, it was rare and unacceptable for women to be apart of the workforce. The workforce often discriminated against them because of their gender. This quote reveals important insight into the play by portraying the role that Amanda and Laura have in their family. Being that Amanda and Laura are women, their duty is to live a domestic life in which they accomplish daily household tasks while Tom provides the income. Amanda and Laura are not given the equivalent opportunities as Tom, so they must heavily rely on him.

In a world where power and public image are the only things of importance, when is it time to question how one’s actions are affecting the children? In the television series Revenge, Amanda Clarke’s fate was molded by the narcissism of the adults that controlled her childhood. By the title of the television series, the viewer immediately knows that Amanda will be taking revenge on someone but it is not known exactly on who or why. Her father David Clarke was wrongfully accused of financially assisting a terrorist group in blowing up an airplane, Flight 197. While in jail he was then stabbed and killed. This ensured that Amanda would never be able to see her father again and the villain Emily Thorne was soon born.