The Wingfield family is a family living in a world of illusion. They are abandoned by their husband and father sixteen years prior. Now forced to live a life they did not anticipate, each member lives in their own private world. In this world, Tom, Amanda, and Laura find meaning and comfort that the real world does not offer. Tennessee Williams is writing the "Glass Menagerie" to say that one should avoid trying to escape reality by living in the past, learn to overcome life's difficulties and move forward in the real world.
Each member of the Wingfield family is unable to overcome the difficulties of accepting and relating to reality. Amanda cannot accept that she is no longer the popular southern belle she thinks she should be. …
