An essay on the personalities of the main characters, the problems they face and how they deal with them. Includes two quotes directly from the book and is 1300 words long.
The Glass Menagerie is a play that takes place in the early 1930's in St.Louis. There are only four characters involved in the story; Amanda Winfield, her son Tom Winfield, her daughter Laura Winfield, and a gentleman caller named Jim O'Connor. This essay will revolve around the personalities of these four people. As well as the problems they face, and how they each deal with them.
Tom Winfield is the narrator of the play as well as the youngest member of the Winfield family in his early twenties. He is a nice, mellow young man and has almost taken on the responsibility of a father figure at home, as he works to support himself as well as his mother and older sister. …
