"The Glass Menagerie" Character review

Amanda Wingfield is an abandoned wife and single mother living in a small apartment in St. Louis. She dreams of the future for her children and is a good mother. She is fixated at the oral stage because she has 'dairia of the mouth', in other words she talks too much. She showed signs defense mechanism such as denial, when at Laura's college she denies that the professor is talking about her daughter, and when she denies that her daughter, Laura, is crippled. She is dominated by the id because she is constantly wishing for her children to get better jobs, improve their lifestyle, and such.…