Amanda Wingfield is a character in the play The Glass Menagerie‚ which is set in St. Louis in 1973. She is from a genteel southern family and has a prominent southern upbringing. She is a mother to two children‚ Tom and Laura; her husband abandoned the family and left her to raise two children. Amanda loves her children immensely and lives for them‚ but can often come across as overbearing and constantly nagging to both Tom and Laura. It is as if Amanda fluctuates between illusion and reality; like
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Ficara 1 Victoria Ficara Professor Nick GT Reading Spring 2015 27 February 2015 Amanda: Lost in the World of the Past Tennessee Williams’ character Amanda Wingfield from The Glass Menagerie is a bold and manipulative woman obsessed with and cemented in the past. Years ago‚ Amanda was abandoned by her husband and was forced to raise two children alone during the Great Depression. Haunted by the rejection of her husband‚ she is determined to keep her children close‚ ev
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Amanda Wingfield In Tennessee Williams’s 1944 drama “The Glass Menagerie”‚ Amanda Wingfield is the main character and the story is of her raising her two children. Amanda Wingfield was raised as an affluent‚ prominent Southern Belle‚ but her husband was an alcoholic and left her with no money. For Amanda‚ less money meant a decline in societal class. In “The Glass Menagerie”‚ Amanda found it extremely difficult to accept her new social class because she was raised to value social distinction
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Amanda The Character of Amanda Wingfield in "The Glass Menagerie" supplies an example of a complex individual whose communication and actions convey a slightly irritating and lonesome mother. Scene IV of "The Glass Menagerie‚" demonstrates these unique characteristics of Amanda. The scene takes place at about seven am the day after Tom and Amanda get into a major argument. From this scene we can reveal that Amanda’s obviously an overstressed and psychotic single care taker with insufficient mothering
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regarding their own future. Finally‚ by placing a large part of her responsibilities on Tom demonstrates to the reader that Amanda is irresponsible. Despite any views people may have on it being difficult to differentiate the actions of a bad mother from those of a good mother‚ it was made obvious that Amanda was a selfish mother‚ putting her needs ahead of her children’s. Amanda ultimately cared for herself more than her children. Arrogant is one of Amanda’s strongest characteristics. She notices
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Amanda Wingfield is the most prominent and dynamic character in the play. She is described by Williams as "a little woman of great but confused vitality clinging frantically to another time and place". In the play‚ Amanda appears to be a paranoiac as she was constantly worrying about her family’s future‚ and coming up with seemingly foolish ways to ’secure’ their lives. It is not until the end‚ that one sees her real self emerge‚ when she subtly revealed the angel-like beauty that was hidden in her
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Laura Wingfield is stronger than her mother‚ Amanda Wingfield‚ in many ways. Although Amanda is older and wiser than Laura‚ Laura still has a greater psychological tenacity because she endures more obstacles‚ is independent‚ and accepts her fate. In Tennessee William’s play‚ The Glass Menagerie there are many ways that show how Laura is stronger than her mother. First‚ Laura endures more obstacles than Amanda. In scene two‚ Amanda is talking to Laura about her disability pleurosis. Amanda says‚
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The Wingfield Way Tennessee Williams’ play The Glass Menagerie gives readers a look into a truly dysfunctional family. At first it could seem as if their lives are anything but normal‚ but Amanda’s “impulse to preserve her single-parent family seems as familiar as the morning newspaper” (Presley 53). The Wingfields are a typical family just struggling to get by. Their problems‚ however‚ stem from their inability to effectively communicate with each other. Instead of talking out
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of the play Death of Salesman‚ and Amada Wingfield of The Glass Menagerie share many comparable traits‚ but at the same time they are different in some ways. Both Willy and Amanda live in fantasy worlds. They both wish they could revel in the past and what used to be. Amanda dreams back to when she was the pampered southern belle and was called on by many gentlemen callers. She remembers being a socialite and part of the elite society in the south. Amanda has this notion that she has to build a dowry
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While most choose to press on through their struggles‚ some choose to ignore them completely. They engross themselves in their own little world in order to escape reality. We see various examples of this with the Wingfield family in Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie. Amanda Wingfield is the mother of Tom and Laura. She is a “southern belle” whose glory days have long since faded away. She is struggling to come to terms with the fact that she is not in the same position she once was‚ socially
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