Glass Menagerie Fable

The Glass Menagerie Fable

Tom is the narrator in this show and it is told through his point of view. He is a worker at a warehouse in St. Louis, MO and works to support his mom and sister since their father left with only sending one postcard. Tom is a factory worker who longs to be a poet but because of his situation it’s a hard task to accomplish, which ultimately fuels a lot of his rage. Because of this Tom and his mother Amanda’s  relationship is a rocky one and they even argue at the beginning about something as small as how Tom chews his food. Tom eventually gets so mad that he breaks Amanda’s fragile glass treasures.

 Unlike her mother Laura is extremely shy and does not pursue life in the way her mother would want her to. One of the things Amanda wants for Laura is for her to be educated, she enrolls Laura in a business school and is extremely angry when she finds out that Amanda has been skipping class to just walk around the city. From the very beginning Amanda is pushing Laura to find a boyfriend and even goes so far as to get Tom to start looking for men at the warehouse to bring home to meet Laura. Tom invites a coworker named Jim Collins not knowing that Laura used to have a huge crush on him in high school. When Laura finds this out she opens the door for him at Amanda’s request and immediately returns to her room until dinner is over. During the middle of dinner the lights go out and Tom tells Amanda the reason the lights are out is because he didn’t pay the electric bill.

 Eventually Laura and Jim start talking and Laura tells him that she always had a crush on him throughout high school and they remember how Laura got her nickname from Jim which is “Blue Roses”. He called her this because she was so shy when she told him why she had a brace on her leg she said “plerosis” and he mistook it for Blue Roses. After they get more comfortable Laura show Jim her Glass unicorn and then Jim breaks off the horn but Laura forgives him and says its just a horse now by the end of the date they end up kissing and then Jim tells Laura that he cant do this because he has a fiancé. Laura ends up being severely crushed by this but not quite as crushed as Amanda because Amanda fears that Laura will lose social status because of this.  

Tom ends up leaving St Louis taking the money that was for the bills.