Glass_Menagerie

Glass Menagerie Everyone brings their past into their present lives. Sometimes we have a tendency to let it run and negatively affect our lives as well as the lives of others. The Glass Menagerie written by Tennessee Williams clearly shows that the past can sometimes dominate one’s life, and its surroundings. Amanda lives in the past and as a result fails as a mother yet she still sincerely loves her children. Amanda so frequently tells stories to her children of being a “southern belle”. She can not help but to cut off her children while they are talking to tell her never-ending stories. “Amanda never stops reminding her children of her own more affluent past”. Reminiscing or “dajavu” is a recognizable characteristic, however, it is an obsession with Amanda. “Alice Griffin argues that Amanda clings to an illusion of herself as a Beautiful belle in an elegant Old South, where by her own account she was pursued by countless suitors.” (Griffin-61). Amanda is almost given over amanda, past, children, lives, laura, gentlemen, life, yet, tom, talking, story, stories, southern, sometimes, scene, own, over, off, never, menagerie, glass, coming, callers, caller, belle, aren’t, about, young, written, williams, while, what’s, very, unconsciously, toms