Summary of Glass Menagerie

"The Glass Menagerie" is a play being told through the memory of Tom, one of our main characters. It is opened with him talking to the fourth wall, not done again until the end. The play is set in the Wingfields apartment in the 30's. The Main door to the apartment is a fire escape, where Tom addresses us and where many of the major events occur. It symbolizes the escape to the outside world. Amanda Wingfield is the mother. Her husband, Laura and Tom's Dad, left them 16 years ago, he was a drunkard and the mother is afraid of having a drunkard for a son-in-law. Tom and her have been…