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In the play,” The Glass Menagerie”, I am fond of Jim. He skilfully infuses the confidence, hope and faith in Laura. He finds such heart-felt and trusting words persuading her that everybody has problems and is disappointed in something, but nobody thinks of himself as an unfortunate person. He says, “Think of yourself as superior in some way!” Laura believes that he is right, and it is time to stop living in an imaginary solitary world. She gives the broken unicorn to Jim as a token of her acceptance to change her lifestyle.
Tom provokes the negative feelings in me; he is uncertain and selfish person. His behaviour is inexcusable because he calls his mother “babbling old witch”, and he talks to her with a disrespectful tone. He is going to desert his mother and sister with no regret despite that he is the only support for them.
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In the play," The glass Menagerie", I most identify with Amanda's struggle against her miserable life. Even thought she is all nerves to deal with any problem, big or small, it is undeniably that she is a devoted loving mother. She uses her "Blue Mountain" tale to support her lonely spiritual life and devotes all herself to "success and happiness for [her] precious children!" She is a great but also pitiable mother.
Contrarily, I identify with Jim O'Connor's deeds least in the play. He is an immoral and irresponsible "gentleman caller". Although Jim has used his glib tongue to give Laura some confidence, that couldn't compensate Laura for her feeling deeply hurt by Jim. He "kisses [Laura] on lips" and makes her infatuated with love and then tells her he is going to be married to his sweetheart soon after. I wonder where his conscience is and whether he has ever considered Laura's limit of bearing stress. No doubt, Jim's deeds are absolutely fatal to vulnerable Laura.
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Reading "The Glass Menagerie", I can identify the most with the character Tom's struggle. His father lelf home sixteen years ago and hasn't been heard of since. Young Tom therefore contrives to pay the rents and support the family. Beyond doubt, he loves his family and even often aims at easing his mother's worries. However, his mother is the one who is difficult to get on with, "I make myself hatefull to my children." she admits. Meanwhile, Tom is badgered day and night into doing what she wants. Spontaneously, violent urguments frequently happen. To avoid the quarrelling, he hence often goes out, yet he gradually feels his life becoming dull and dry. Finally, he can't bear it any longer and leaves for good.
Beside the point, Amanda is the one I feel unfamiliar with, for I don't know what she really wants. If she strives for an harmonious family, she must change her threatening attitude towards her children.
In the play, "The Glass Menagerie", Amanda who I most percieve and feel close to. The way she yells and comments her children straight forward that isn't obscured to me. I can see She is a annoying and pessimistic mother is when she criticizes Tom's drinking and eating way, "chew the food, and don't gulf the coffe. Besides that I also see that she is a dedicated mother. Somehow, she clears up and repolishes the house to welcome a good match for her daughter, Laura. Her expression shows obviously, so I understand well.
I don't know deeply Laura's inside voice except knowing she is a shy girl. Her life is very mysterious She is fierce of going to college, and doesn't want to meet people, and just enjoys collecting glass animals. I don't know what glass animals mean to her. She doesn't look for her future, like being married or having a career. She makes her family to worry about.
In “The Glass Menagerie”, I identify with Tom most. I can feel his suffering, which is based on my personal experience. He is not remorseless to his family, but handling the problems of his family is beyond his capability. If he stayed, depression might drive him crazy. Escaping from the cage of his kin gives Tom a change to be himself. At least, one of these three gloomy people might become happy.
On the other hand, Laura is the character that I identify with the least. She closes all her windows to the real world. She stays with her glass collection all day long. Her crippled leg is a poor excuse for her situation. If she had a little more courage, her life would be different. I feel sorry for her, but her attitude toward the external world is most responsible for her suffering.
In this play, I feel close to Tom, and can understand Tom’s feeling and behavior.
He got tired his mom’s lecture, and he feels stress and strains to support his family.
He is young and has his own dream, but he can’t fulfill his dream due to his disabled sister and mom. He may wish to run away from his home and his family, and want to fly freely.
In the other hand, I don’t like Amanda’s personality. Amanda doesn’t face up to her reality. She doesn’t know what her daughter really needs for her future. Laura needs confidence for herself and her future, but Amanda wants to find gentleman who can take care of Laura like Laura takes care of the glass animals.
In the play, “ The Glass Menagerie”, I most identify with laura’s shyness and introversion. A childhood illness has left her with a defect in her leg that probablly has caused her lack of conidence. She isolates herself from the rest of the world and plays with her own glass menagerie collection. When she sees Jim, a young visiter, she feels ill at ease. Her naivity and inexperience exposes her fragile emotion, and puts herself in a vulnerable position. On the other hand, Jim is a confidence opportunist. He uses his charming and sweet words to lift Laura sky high, such as calling her “Blue Roses”, dancing with her, kissing her lips, then drops her without hesitation. He tells her that he can’t date her because he is engaged with Betty. As a result, Loura finds herself in an awkward painful predicament caused by Jim’s selfish action.
In the play, “The Glass Menagerie”, I feel close to Tom most. I can feel his struggle and suffering exactly, because I am in the similar situation now. Tom is a person who gives up his dreams and the life he wants in order to support his family. He doesn’t like his job, but he has to do it. He doesn’t like his life style, but he has to keep it. He sacrifices himself a lot to his family, but his mother can not understand him. She keeps complaining about her problem and confining Tom’s freedom. Tom never talks his problems to his family, because he loves his mother and sister, and he doesn’t want to make them sad and feel sorry to him. He just bears burden in his shoulders in silence. All the things drive Tom crazy and let him want to leave home.
No character in this play I identify with the least. All the characters in this play are real. They are so real that I can match them to the people I know in my life. They all make some mistakes in their life, and they all have their own difficulties which they can not overcome. And it is the real face of life. I can understand every character’s situation, feelings and behaviors. Amanda’s disappointment to her life causes her complaining all the time. Laura’s disability and the unhealthy family environment cause her to close her heart to the world. Jim’s love makes him to improve himself and wants to change his life. All the things happened in the play happens in our real life.
However, the play will end finally, but the real life continues to play.
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In the play,"The Glass Menagerie",
I identify with Jim, the only person who has the positive attitude and the sound personality in his life with little struggle. To Laura, his magnanimous acceptance and warmth are unexpected, but they cure Laura's
paralyzing shyness. His influential
personality is also shown in his saying to Laura:"I'm disappointed, but I'm not discouraged."
In contrast, Amenda is the person I can't understand. To her childern,
her considerate motive oppositely increases their struggle.Her life is full of unrealistic illusion and
antiquated memory. Her chatter and importunity are also unendurable.
About “The Glass Menagerie”
The play “The Glass Menagerie” give me the opportunity to dig in my soul and find similarity with all characters. I find myself in Amanda’s position because I try to protect my children, but my behavior end up in a lamentable nagging. Sometimes I feel that Laura is an echo of my personality because she’s lost in a parallel world, unable to feet in the reality. Jim is a piece of my past, at that time I was like a small star, and I was sure that nothing can stop my dream.Tom is my favorite he’s a wild character that mirrors my desire to bursting out when my limits are reached.
In the play “The Glass Menagerie” I feel close to Tom. Facing such a stress activity of his mother, he is trying to adjust things and bring peace and quiet to his family. Laura is taken by her collection for the same reason as Tom is taken by the movie. Stress and no chance to change anything. Tom tries to protest, but how he can protest against his own mother? Most of the time he spend watching movie. Why? May be he tries to see situation close to his own, and find the solution how to deal with it. Not a day went by when Amanda didn’t give him observation of his behavior or manner. It was not comfortable and satisfying life for Tom and he is trying to search for friends, to have suitable work and to be useful in this society.
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The character I most identify with is Tom only because he understands what he wants and what he needs to do. I don't think he was being selfish at all to want to leave the family. At some point in your life you have to do something you can't give up your dreams for people who don't know how to achieve theirs. Tom also has hope in the story whereas I feel the others don't.
Amanda is the character I dislike the most. She is calculating. Even when she thinks back to her choice of husbands it's too calculating. What she thought was most important was entertaining guests and feeling like she needed peer approval. Tom realizes she is full of herself and goes overboard with putting on a show for other people.
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