Wingfield family, fictional family, the main characters in Tennessee Williams’s drama The Glass Menagerie (1944). Amanda, the head of the family, attempts to manage the lives of Tom and Laura, her two adult children. Pathetically unrealistic in her view of the world, Amanda shatters her daughter’s fragile sensibility and drives her son away.
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The Glass Menagerie
Amanda Wingfield lives in a St. Louis tenement, clinging to the myth of her early years as a Southern belle, repeating romantic stories of those years to her two children. Her daughter, Laura, who wears a leg brace, is painfully shy and often seeks solace in…Read More
Tennessee Williams, American dramatist whose plays reveal a world of human frustration in which sex and violence underlie an atmosphere of romantic gentility. Williams became interested in playwriting while atRead More
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- role in “The Glass Menagerie”