What happened in Scene 5 of The Glass Menagerie?
Tom steps onto the fire escape with his cigarette and reminisces about the Paradise Dance Hall across the street from the tenements, remembering the rainbow-colored lights and the young couples. Amanda joins Tom on the fire escape, and they look at the moon together. They each make a wish on the moon.
What is Laura’s disability in The Glass Menagerie?
Laura Wingfield: Amanda’s daughter and Tom’s older sister, Laura suffers the results of a childhood illness which left one of her legs malformed and in a brace. As a result, Laura is painfully shy and has withdrawn herself the outside world. She is much like her beloved glass figurines: delicate and frail.
Why does Jim pull away after kissing Laura?
Jim knows that Laura is very shy and insecure. He tries to make her realize that she is not so different from anyone else. What does he do?
What did Amanda call?
When Tom calls her “peculiar” he says all she does is stay home and play with her glass collection. Amanda simply refuses to acknowledge Laura’s defect or her extreme shyness but she is terribly concerned about how Laura will support herself after Amanda dies.
Why is Tom’s statement about going to the movies ironic in The Glass Menagerie?
He has changed in the past year in ways that are not attractive. When Tom informs his mother that he is “going to the movies” in The Glass Menagerie, what makes his statement ironic? He criticized his sister for living in a world of her own.
What does Laura wish on in The Glass Menagerie and how is it symbolic and significant?
She calls Laura out onto the landing and tells her to make a wish on the moon. Amanda, overcome with emotion, tells her to wish for happiness and good fortune.
Why is Laura the protagonist in The Glass Menagerie?
Laura. Doubtlessly, the protagonist is Laura. She’s the only one that, we, the audience, don’t get annoyed with all the time or feel the need to judge on the basis of his/her awful moral decisions, and she has all these great protagonist qualities like being perceptive and kind and beautiful.
Where is Amanda’s husband in The Glass Menagerie?
Wingfield: A portrait of this man—Amanda’s husband and the father of Tom and Laura—hangs on the wall in the living room, a constant reminder of the life they never had.
What is Laura’s last line in The Glass Menagerie?
For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura—and so goodbye. . . ” (She blows the candles out.) Tom is troubled by how he deserted Laura.
What does Amanda always instruct Laura?
Even the fact that Amanda tells Laura to practice her shorthand or to study the typing chart prepares the reader for the beginning of the next scene where Amanda discovers Laura’s deception about her failure in school.
Why does Laura not answer the door at first?
How come Laura doesn’t want to answer the door when Jim arrives? Laura was extremely shy and nervous to see Jim. When Tom tells Jim that Laura is extremely shy, what does Jim say? He says “It’s unusual to meet a shy girls nowadays.”
What does the fire escape symbolize in The Glass Menagerie?
Leading out of the Wingfields’ apartment is a fire escape with a landing. The fire escape represents exactly what its name implies: an escape from the fires of frustration and dysfunction that rage in the Wingfield household.