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Laura asks Tom to apologize to Amanda for their argument of the preceding evening. Amanda sends Laura to the store for butter and tells her to charge it even though Laura has qualms about charging anything else. As Laura leaves, she trips on the fire escape and Tom rushes to help her.
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A bell tolls five times as Tom returns home. He has been drinking. After painstakingly extracting his key from a jumble of cast-off items in his pockets, he drops it into a crack on the fire-escape landing. Laura hears him fumbling about and opens the door. He tells her that he has been at the movies for most of the night and also to a magic show, ...
Tom is impatient to get to work, but Amanda holds him back to talk about her worry over Lauras future. Amanda has tried to integrate Laura into the rest of the world by enrolling her in business college and taking her to Young Peoples League meetings at church, but nothing has worked. Laura is unable to speak to people outside her family and spends...
For the first production of The Glass Menagerie, the composer Paul Bowles wrote a musical theme entitled The Glass Menagerie. This music plays when Amanda discusses Laura at the breakfast table with Tom and at other crucial moments involving Laura. The title and timing of the music equate Laura with her glass animals. Like the objects that she love...
Laura begs Tom to apologize, but he remains unwilling. Amanda sends Laura to buy groceries on credit, and as Laura leaves, she slips on the fire escape. The ominous bell and Amanda’s wake-up call bring Tom from his nightly fantasy of escape to the inevitable reality of the morning.
Yet Amanda’s nagging of Tom and her refusal to recognize Laura’s flaws indicate her deep-rooted selfishness. She wants the best for Tom and Laura, but her concept of the best has far more to do with her own values than with her children’s interests and dreams.
As the church bell sounds for six o’clock, an alarm clock rings, and Amanda’s voice orders Laura to wake Tom. Laura pleads with Tom to apologize to their mother, but he is still...
Laura, who has been sent to wake him, begs Tom to apologize to Amanda. Meanwhile, Amanda is calling out from the kitchenette for Laura to go get butter from the grocery store. Laura, exiting on the fire escape, slips and cries out. The noise gives Tom and Amanda a scare, but Laura seems to be fine.
Barely noticing the broken menagerie, Amanda declares she will not speak to Tom until she receives an apology. Tom bends down to pick up the glass and glances at Laura as if he would like to say something but says nothing.
