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- When Tom displays confusion at Amanda’s obsession over a house and a husband for Laura, Amanda confronts Tom and tells him that she knows about the letter he recently received from the Merchant Marines. Amanda accuses him of behaving selfishly like his father.
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In many respects, the argument between Tom and Amanda in the scene is a result of latent tension that percolates to the surface in the scene. Amanda's insistence on Tom being...
Tom’s frustration with his job and home life, Amanda’s nostalgia for her past and demands for the family’s future, and Laura’s social and physical handicaps all emerge quickly through the dialogue.
Tom calls Amanda an “ugly––babbling old––witch.” He tries to wrench on his overcoat, finds himself trapped in it, jerkily pulls it off, and throws it across the room, where it smashes into the shelf holding the glass menagerie and breaks several of the animals.
In Scene 6, how does Amanda embarrass Tom? Tom is embarrassed by his mother because she acts like a teenager in Jim's presence. She talks incessantly (about herself) and presents herself as if she were a young, southern belle in search of a husband.
- Tennessee Williams
When Amanda accuses Tom of doing something he is ashamed of every night and accuses him of lying about going every night to the movies, Tom becomes infuriated and tells his mother a fantastic tale and ends by calling her an "ugly — babbling — witch."
Amanda proceeds to brush Tom’s hair while interrogating him about the young gentleman caller. Her first concern is that he not be a drunkard. Tom thinks she is being a bit hasty in assuming that Laura will marry the visitor.
She constantly nags Tom, and she refuses to accept Laura’s peculiarities, projecting her own ideals of femininity onto Laura rather than accepting or even recognizing her daughter for who she is. Amanda is both a very comic and deeply tragic figure.
