Class_Roles_in_Pygmalion

Class Roles in Pygmalion Laura Wingfield has the fewest lines in the play “The Glass Menagerie,” yet the play revolves around her. Laura is twenty-three, and walks with a limp due to a brace on her leg. Although Laura faces problems throughout the play, she is very compassionate. She is humble, shy, and never does anything to hurt anyone else. The character of Laura throughout the play is like a fragile piece of glass, unable to survive in the outside world, and she always retreats to her glass collection. Laura is a loving portrait locked up in her own little world, her lobotomy trapping her in a permanent adolescence. Due to Laura’s low self-esteem, and inferiority complex she devotes herself to an imaginative world, which is colorful and enticing, but based on fragile illusions. Laura’s mother, Amanda, comes from a Southern family and has had an idyllic youth. A former jet setter, Amanda relishes telling stories about her exciting past. “ My callers were gentlemen, all! Among my callers were some of the most prominent planters of the Mississippi Delta; planters and sons of planters” (Williams 8). Amanda is disappointed in Laura because is laura, jim, world, laura’s, school, because, amanda, unicorn, mother, glass, tom, out, family, williams, very, own, same, play, high, business, after, shyness, reality, people, make, little, life, just, herself, feel, even, comes, callers, [online], laura’s, without, unlike, together, time, through, table, planters, places, piece, patrowicz, outside, once, now, menagerie