The next day, Laura is sitting at her desk in front of the typewriter chart when Amanda comes in angry. Amanda tells her story of 17 gentleman callers. Amanda keeps telling Tom to chew is food, and Tom gets thoroughly annoyed and leaves the table to smoke. The start of the play shows the Wingfield family eating dinner. Plot Summary Tom begins by introducing the play as a memory play of his own memory of his past. Williams was even nicknamed Tom in his youth. Williams himself resembled Laura's brother, Tom Wingfield. " His mother resembled Laura's mother, Amanda. When he was growing up, he was close to his sister, Rose, who resembled the fragile and psychologically disturbed Laura Wingfield in "The Glass Menagerie. Both works drew upon Williams's own experiences. The Glass Menagerie By Tennesse Williams About the Author Tennessee Williams based “The Glass Menagerie” on "Portrait of a Girl in Glass," a short story he wrote in 1943 and published in 1948.
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