The Glass Menagerie

"The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams is s play assigned to read for a quiz on Friday while we have been watching the movie in class. So far I have read Scene 1 of the story and I am glad that we have been watching the movie because now I can put a name with a face. Scene 1 begins involving dinner and Amanda(the mother) nagging already and talking about eating, and chewing and mastication and so on, annoying Tom. Tom eagerly expresses his annoyance and it merely causes a set of arguements among them. Amanda continuously tells Laura to stay fresh and pretty for gentlemen callers as if she has any. Laura tells her that she has none and of ocurse Amanda says that is impossible to have no callers at all. Tom is still there moaning and groaning in annoyance from his mother. The nagging Amanda tells a repeated story about her having 17 gentlemen callers. Scene 1 ends when Laura says "Mother's afraid I'm going to become an old maid." I think that the mother, Amanda is really annoying and Tom is respectively losing it because of her constant nagging and annoyance. Laura seems to have something mentally wrong with her because she is just so passive and seems to really do nothing but be there.