![]() The stories are threadbare from constant repetition, but Tom and Laura let Amanda tell them again, Tom asking her questions as though reading from a script. She regales Tom and Laura with memories of her youth as a Southern belle in Blue Mountain, courted by scores of gentleman callers. ![]() Amanda nags Tom about his table manners and his smoking. Throughout the play, thematic music underscores many of the key moments. Tom enters the apartment, and the action of the play begins. Tom and Laura’s father abandoned the family many years ago, and except for a single postcard reading “Hello––Goodbye!” has not been heard from since. A gentleman caller, Tom says, will appear in the final scenes of the play. Tom works in a warehouse to support his mother, Amanda, and his sister, Laura. Tom stands on the fire escape and addresses the audience to set the scene. ![]() The apartment is entered by a fire escape. ![]() The curtain rises to reveal the dimly lit Wingfield apartment, located in a lower-class tenement building in St. The Glass Menagerie is a memory play, and all the events are drawn from the memories of the play’s narrator, Tom Wingfield, who is also a character in the play. ![]()
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