Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie

In Tennessee Williams’s original script of The Glass Menagerie, he explains that there is “much to admire in Amanda, and as much to love and pity as there is to laugh at.” This statement explains Tom’s view of Amanda at that point in time. He feels that she admirable, lovable, capable of being laughed at, and felt pity for at the same time. She is a complex person that can toy with people’…

…Glass Menagerie, he explains that there is “much to admire in Amanda, and as much to love and pity as there is to laugh at.” This statement explains Tom’s view of Amanda at that point in time. Amanda is such a complex person that all of these emotions can be felt toward her. Amanda is a mother that has good intentions but many times her self-centeredness causes her good intentions to become unhealthy actions.