Part one of term paper
Is being able to shut off one’s mind like a light switch a blessing or does it signify a detachment from reality? The characters in Tennessee Williams’s play The Glass Menagerie are all able to ignore the problems of their world, just as if they were turning off a light. Laura wingfield is the daughter in the play and is very detached ...

Part two of term paper
... them to encouraging them. All in all Amanda Wingfield is a character very much detached form reality. A mother believes that her daughter should follow in her footsteps. When Amanda was young she had very may gentlemen callers “One Sunday afternoon in Blue Mountain-your mother received-seventeen! -Gentlemen callers!” (33). So naturally Amanda expects the same of Laura “Stay fresh and pretty! It’s almost time for our gentlemen callers to be arriving. I don’t believe that we are going t ...