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In the play "The Glass Menagerie," which character do you identify with [feel close to and understand]? Which character do you identify with the least?
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In “The Glass Menagerie,” Amanda is one that I feel the most understand. She struggles with pain fate; meanwhile, she also bravely attempts to survive. I admire her responsibility to be a mother, even though I dislike her attitude to her son and daughter. She asks Tom don’t smoke too much; she eagerly tries to arrange poor Laura’s future; She encourages herself in the way like dreaming her gloried age. She acts her role the similar as other normal mothers from the large number of low middle-class families. I seem know her in somewhere before. On the other hand, the least close one is Laura. Her world usually is closed by her inferior mind. I am curious what kind of thinking she has. She refuses to be independent and emphasizes her defect when she meets any challenge. What type of environment can develops a person’s quality like her? I ask myself, but I don’t find the answer. (157 words)
The Unique
Out of all characters from “The Glass Menagerie” I could easily identify with Laura. Laura is unique not only because of her physical disability, but also because of her extreme shyness. I understand her feelings because the confidence is the main factor I’ve been trying to achieve in my life. Her emotional reaction to a new situation, like typing test, was comprehensible for me because I know what it means to have a butterfly in the stomach, when unknown and unpredictable situation arises. Same like for Laura, the relationship with my family and friends makes me feel safe and secure. In contrast, Jim is the person I can identify with the least. He seem to have no problems in his life. He’s bold, outgoing, and courageous. For me, he is to perfect to be real. I think, we all create our own reality that makes us feel unique in others' eyes.
The character I feel close in the play of “The Glass Menagerie,” is Amanda. As a mother, I think she feels a lot of pressures and responsibilities as a single parent toward Tom and Laura. She tries hard by pushing them to be an ideal person with ideal life. The point makes her behavior unpleasant and unrespectable is the lake of parenting education and knowledge. She doesn’t care about children’s feelings and obstacles; she just uses one method which is pushing them to reach her goal. On the other hand, Jim a young man which I like his personality and self-confidence, but I don’t like the way he behaved with Laura. He speaks proudly and professionally and diagnoses her with”inferiority complex”, but after his dance’s and kiss’s he destroyed her world right away. I think the negative impact of this incident for Laura is huge because of her fragile personality and low confidence. Overall, we as a human learn from our experiences negative or positive. (164words)
As father of my daughter and son, I have the same thinking of Amenda. I want them to have a better future. Amenda come out as a strong lady. She is very aggressive when she want to accomplish her purposes. I can see how she as a telephone sales for the magazine subscription. The person is sleeping in the early 7:30 when she makes the phone call. She is a very good negotiator. She win all the time when Tom has an argument with her. She is taking good care of his son and daughter. She want them to have a good life. She want Laura to study in the business school and ask Tom don't be a drunker. She have the requirements for the gentleman caller too. Unfortunately, both of Tom and Laura did not have her characters. They both are more like their father. If Amanda lives now, she will be a very success business entrepreneur.
In the play “Glass Menagerie,” Amanda is a negative character in many people’s eyes. She often roars and shouts to her children, she likes to plunge herself into fabricating her brilliant past. But I can understand her. Beacuse of her abandonment by her husband, she has to support her family for sixteen years. And, the high expectations she puts on her children confronting with the cruel reality, one by one, are shattered. Like normal human beings, she also wants to get rid of these onerous and irksome responsibilities and longs for a rich life. Under such conditions, anyone, gradually and easily, can become crazy and boring. In contrast, I can’t understand Tom. In a poor family, which lacks the support of his father, with a cripple sister both in physically and emotionally, he is the only man and all the time wants to follow his father escaping from the family. Even though he thinks that his father is a “bastard” he still wants to be.
The four characters in "The Glass Menagerie" are all irreplaceable and have their own roles which have made the play more attractive.Among them Laura is my favorite and I feel close to my imagination. She is the same type person as Jane Eyre that has plain appearance(or a little defect) but kindness and sensitivity inside. To me, they are as unique as Laura's beloved glass collection--unicorn, which is eternal definition of exclusive item,no matter whether Jim broke its horn or not. Talking about Jim, who is the person I can identify the least, I could say the lesser important role in the play. He could be any guy in that period and all he needs to do is breaking the unicorn and Laura' dream. I am not quite sure what he said to Laura would help her out or not.
In "The Glass Menagerie", I could feel close to and understand Amanda. I think she has a powerful and unique and personality. Even though she is abandoned by her husband, she still positive expectations, and she does her best to make money in order to support her family. She strives to stuggle with her miserable fate. As a single mother, she has responsibilities for Tom and Laura no matter how she feels a lot of stress. She tries hard to reach her ideal life, so she asks Tom not to be drunk and lets Laura study in the business school, and she arranges Laura's future even her marriage. However, she uses the wrong way to accomplish her goals. She never cares about the feeling of her kids, and she just forces her kids to do what they don't like to do. I admire her strong and open trait, but I dislike her uncomfortable manners to approach her purposes. On the other hand, Jim is the least identify with. He is seemed to be a perfect person, but in fact he is not real in a real life even though he speaks proudly. He knows he has a girlfriend, but he still kisses Laura. He breaks the unicorn and Laura's dream, so I don't think what he says and does would be helpful to Laura.
The Glass Menagerie
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I was stunned by Amanda Wingfield character in a “The Glass Menagerie” play. She is extraordinary person. She lives with memories of the past, but doesn't forget about the future. She carries a huge amount of love to her ex-husband, who left her alone and never call but she still loves him, to her kids who doesn’t want to make any effort to live better and happier, and to life , which beat her quite hard. She believes in good. She believes in her daughter that she is the most beautiful thing in the world and she will find a man regardless her defect “hardly noticeable, even”. She believes in he son and that if she’ll talk to him again about his life he’ll finally realize and change it to good, to happier and more successful live than he has now. Sometimes she brakes, but recovers quickly going back to her regular stage of criticizing him and finding gentleman callers for her precious daughter so that they could live better than her.
In the play “The Glass Menagerie”, I love the character of Amanda for being demanding, strong, and outspoken with her kids. She is a woman who has resentments for the abandonment of her husband, and her struggle with money. Therefore, she is very concern with the future of her children. Although, I feel identify with Amanda because I grew up in a similar environment when my parents separated, so I saw several occasions, how my mother would worry in how to pay off her bills. In contrast, the least character I detest is Jim for his ego and personality. I think he is snobby and pretends to be smart. In addition, his action when he kisses Laura was not appropriate because he is engage with other girl. It reminds me an ex-boyfriend that he never told me he had a girlfriend when we were dating. At the end, Amanda and Jim are unique characters that we can learn from their experiences to improve in our lives.
In the play "The Glass Menagerie," I identify with Amanda. As a divorced woman with two children, her life is harder. She hopes that Laura will have a date and have good future. When the fact is not like her thought, she is worried and little bit crazy. Same goes to my mother. For instance, I didn’t pass a certain subject. She was so depressed and blamed me. Therefore, I can definitely understand why Amanda acts like that. I identify with Tom at least. It seems like he is living in his dream world. He goes to movie almost every day, wants to leave the family like his father. As the only male in his family, he is so immature and irresponsible. He’d better wake up and go back to his real life. Don’t let his mother down.
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An Honest Man
In “The Glass Menagerie,” I especially identify with Tom more than others. Because of his father’s leaving, Tom, as a man, has to undertake the burden of supplying the family although he just earns a low wage in a shoe-factory. Of course, Tom is ambitious and hopes to really become a poet, so he certainly wants to get rid of the pressures from his mother and the family’s life. It is very difficult to Tom to make a decision between his mother’s family and his future, so he has to go movies night by night and even drinks. When Tom left the family, he always worries about his sister. It is convinced that he does not really escape from this family but his responsibility. Therefore, Tom is not perfect; however, he is honest.
Tamu's Answer:
Laura is the character I relate to the most. I was awkward growing up and was very insecure. The guys made fun of me because I was flat chested in my early teens, and I had braces. My braces were clear on top. It looked like I never brushed my teeth. Laura’s self-esteem is so low that she doesn’t date or have a lot of friends. When Tom brings a guy home, it turns out he was a guy she liked in school. She thought that he thought she was a freak. She learns otherwise when she is alone with him. Last, Laura collects glass ornaments. I have been collecting dolls for years.
Tom is the character I identify the least with. He is sneaky and selfish when he keeps the electricity bill for himself. Tom puts Laura down too.
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