"The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams is the
longest story we have been assigned to read so far. I just finished reading the
play and it pretty much followed the movie very accurately. It contains 7
scenes. There are a few differences in the movie and the play so far, mainly in
just some of the things said such as wording and also being able to pay
attention to detail as through reading the play itself. Because the movie
hasn't ended yet in class I was surprised to see how the play ended. The
gentleman caller named Jim ended up coming over for dinner and of course Amanda
dressed herself and Laura all pretty for him. Amanda ended up telling him to
join Laura who was alone in the other room. He made her feel more comfortable
talking about remembrance of high school. He ends up getting her to dance and
then kisses her. Immediately after he apologizes, claiming he is going steady
with a girl named Betty and says he needs to leave. Amanda enters the room
around this time and he proceeds to give the information that astounds her also informing them that they are engaged to be married. He
leaves to get Betty so she doesn't have to wait. After he leaves Amanda is
infuriated with Tom for allowing this to happen and he just leaves. She told
him to go and he did. The last paragraph is something Tom says, I’m not quite sure
what it fully means but he says he is gone, just like his father, and sees
Laura at a glass place and tells her to blow out the candles. I don’t know how
to interpret that yet.
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