Laura Schlessinger

On the pitch black stage the screen is lit with the image of an orange ribbon. Laura’s body becomes noticeable and the screen starts to fade out. The music fades. Laura is sitting on a red beanbag at the foot of the coffee table in the living room. She is wearing snow white crop top with blue marble colored mini skirt- her hair is pulled back into a tight fishtail braid. She is on her computer watching Keeping up with the Kardashians on Instagram. Amanda appears at the top of the stairs. At the

exactly what his family is like. Tom's father left years before the play takes place, Amanda only cares about herself, and Laura is crippled and painfully shy. For Tom, this means he has to help his family and stay at home because Amanda does not help Laura. Tom, Amanda, and Laura each try to escape reality and resort to things they love to do. Amanda has a very hard time raising Laura, so for Tom, this means that he has to help out a lot. While trying to pay the bills and take care of his family, Tom

that I enjoyed because of all the different aspects of the characters lives and views of things. For example Laura an older single mother who wants the best for her two grown children Laura who is 23 years old and Tom who is the older brother. There father Mr. Wingfield abandoned them for long distance traveling and never came back so Laura is taking care of them on her own. Her daughter Laura is shy and quiet girl who has a crippled leg and cannot work because of it and her oldest son Tom is just like

In the reading of The Glass Menagerie, we see how Laura, Tom, Jim O’Conner, and Amanda are trying to escape his or her situation. In this final paper we will see how they were trapped, and what they done to be released from their caged life. You will see how Amanda lives in the past, Laura lives in her own little world, Tom is living for the present and looking for the best way out, and Jim O’Conner is trying to become someone famous.. Have you ever felt like a caged bird

(Williams 1194). Laura also has her own struggles due to her shyness, “It was the lesser of two evils, Mother. I couldn’t go back up. I-threw up-on the floor” (Williams 1184). Amanda overlooks these instances in her kids life, all she sees is them overlooking her. She is selfish and so caught up in her past life, where everything came easily that she fails to recognize that things are not coming easily to her own kids. Tom has to work extremely hard to provide for the family, and Laura is unable to speak

coincidental as Laura’s similarity to her glass collection. He also uses the movies to experience vicariously what he longs to have in his own life. Tom reveals at the end of the play that he feels guilty for having left her behind. Tom recognizes that Laura is special and he very deeply cares for her, shown by how struck with guilt and self-hatred he is when he breaks her glass animals with his coat. Tom’s escape comes when he and Amanda fight about Jim and Amanda tells him to “go to the moon,” and calls

emotions. Someone I loved so dearly. Flashbacks of our memories spent together made it seem as if she was still here. We had our ups and downs but I would not trade it for any other day. She was my wife, my companion, the mother of my child, she was Laura Freedman. It was the morning of the funeral, everyone dressed in black. After the long week of hell, I picked myself up and put on my black suit. The words, “How did this happen, what do I do from here?” filled my head, second after second. It has

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams is a drama that involves four main characters; Amanda, Tom, Laura, and Jim. Amanda is the mother and Tom and Laura are her two children. Their father left them years ago, leaving them responsible for the things he once took care of. When the father was still living there, he was the breadwinner of the family and provided for their needs. It seems that ever since he has been gone, they have not transitioned into their life without him, emotionally as well

improve self-confidence and instill open-mindedness. The reader’s perception of Rob and Rob’s own perception of himself differ greatly from one another throughout the majority of High Fidelity. It is only towards the end of the novel, when he and Laura get back together, that the two perceptions meet somewhere in the middle. When we are first introduced to Rob he immediately dives into a list of his “top five most memorable split-ups”(Hornby 3), however when describing his past relationships and

In the short story, “Death Constant Beyond Love”, the significance of the title of the story has many meanings. The first meaning is that death is the one this that is constant. Regardless of how we feel about one another, emotions evolved, and even love, all things will come to an end. If something dies, it is forever. Therefore, nothing can come back to life. Giving death a constant role in life. I found the title of this story to be very direct to its readers. This story spoke on different symbols