Laura, Marshall Islands

change the outcome of the story, I would have allowed Laura and Jim O’Connor to get married. I would have made this change because then Amanda’s problem would have been solved, and Laura would have had financial support in the future. Another reason I would have made this change is because Jim O’Connor would have been the ideal man for Laura because he connected with her. He saw past her awkward fondness of a glass animal set. He also got Laura to take pride in herself. Another thing I would change

of the Wingfield’s struggles with. Amanda’s hopelessness comes from the feeling that she isn’t as important as she once was, as though her fame/glory is slowly fading away. It is this fear that causes her to push Laura to become more socially accepted and popular with others. Laura is extremely afraid of seeing Jim O’Connor, and beneath that we can see her insecurities about her physical appearance and her fear of being able to be a productive member of society. Tom’s desire to create poetry

the plot centres on Laura, we also learn a fair amount about Amanda and Tom's life. Therefore, Williams actually explores life through the fantasies of an American family who share one main thing in common- they all have big dreams, but they are all flawed. Thus, failure is their only fate. Life is explored in detail through the main characters namely Laura, Amanda and Tom, I will first look at Laura. Laura's "defect" in her leg has made her a shy and reclusive girl.

medias res as we are thrown into a scene where Laura 's husband John is watch­ing television without any introduction. The structure in the story lets us jump a bit back and forth between two settings, as we are shown what is happening in the streets though Johns television, while we are also following the main characters in the apartment. So the story unfolds two places: the streets and John and Laura 's apartment. The setting shows that Laura

Correspondingly, in 419, Laura does not begin the novel as being an immoral character, as originally, she only wishes to get the money her father lost to the scammer back, but later on, this initial desire for earning back what was rightfully hers,leads to her greed and desire for even more revenge. After she got what she wanted, by scamming Winston in order to get almost all the money he stole from her father, Laura did not merely stop and go back home to Canada. Instead her desire for more revenge

friends with Laura for three years now and she’s never been that person who feels the need to share what thoughts are on her mind. Sure we’ve had our ups and downs, including the gruesome chili dodgeball show in the cafeteria two years ago. Laura is probably the most private person you’ll ever meet, which isn’t a bad thing because when she isn’t private, you’ll be stuck drowning in the sounds of both her daily internal and external crises’. “I think it’s best if we stay clear of Laura, so we don’t

Essay Three: Laura An individual’s persona can be influenced by factors and circumstances of one’s proximity. Aspects of one’s past can surely contribute to one’s personality traits. Based on Tennessee Williams’s play The Glass Menagerie, Williams advocates how a person obtains an introverted, timid personality and neglects reality. Aspects such as family members, past occurrences and hobbies assist in constructing or molding one’s personality. Laura, the youngest sibling, obtains an introverted

Sun Also Rises and The Hours, Laura Brown and Jake are constantly battling the inner struggle of who they are versus who society deems they should be. Laura Brown, in The Hours, feels suffocated in her role as a mother and tries to convince herself she is happy, because she thinks that she should be. Jacob, in The Sun Also Rises, is a war vet, who feels that his impotency emasculates him and has a profound amount of insecurity rooted in this inability. Jake and Laura both use protective mechanisms

women he dates rather than through his own eyes. One gets a better idea of this when Rob and Laura are arguing and Laura says she doesn’t like music as much as she used to. Rob says, “But you see... That’s all there is of me. There isn’t anything else. If you’ve lost interest in that, you’ve lost interest in everything. What’s the point of us?” (265). Here Rob is basically admitting that he is using Laura to condone a definition of himself that has been created by, that entirely consists of, music

The Glass Menagerie: Stoplight Paragraph By: Benn Rohs Claim: While Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie makes it clear that Laura is emotionally fragile, he uses other characters throughout the book to develop her as a vulnerable yet curious individual. Data/Warrant: First, In The Glass Menagerie, weakness is linked to fragility, which comes to mean both beauty and break-ability. While Laura’s shyness and fragility keep her in her own little world of equally fragile glass animals, they also