"Will you? Will you? Will you? Will you, dear?"
(Amanda, The Glass Menagerie, pg. 1254)
Granted, I had been warned. Mr. Costello had implied it and the character descriptions stated it, but I wasn't sure to what extent. Amanda is weird. Tom is the only mentally sane person in the apartment. The mother-son relationship seems not only very strained, but also very intricate. They love each other, and Tom does so much to keep the family going. However, Amanda still wants to be the authoritative figure and the head hauncho. She seems to have a very bad idea of what all Tom does. Laura si just strange. Who the heck skips school everyday for a semester just to walk outside. She needs to cow boy up. HALT! Amanda gets so much out of Tom and nothing out of Laura, but it's for Laura who Amanda schemes and worries. That's just ungrateful. Tom would like a little parental concern shown for him sometime, I bet!
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