Part one of term paper
I found the character of the mother Amanda Wingfield really quite annoying to listen to after a few moments of hearing her. It brought back many memories of my ex-husband’s mother. She was just as much a nag as Amanda. A person could never sit down at the dinner table without her yelling at someone to get his or her elbows off the table, ...

Part two of term paper
... leisurely way with her there. I see exactly why Tom got up and left the table. I did this many times just so I would not hear arguments between my mother-in-law and my ex-husband. After the table incident, when Tom would go outside on the stairs to smoke, Amanda would follow him and start telling him he smoked too much. This shows us Amanda is really is a nag. In Scene II, Amanda seemed to want her daughter Laura to have as many gentlemen callers as she had when she was a young woman. She ke ...