How is laura in the glass menagerie fragile

Tom and Jim both see Laura as an exotic creature, completely and rather quaintly foreign to the rest of the world.

SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook. Themes Motifs Symbols. Until Jim. Have YOU ever seen a blue rose? Jim recognizes that Laura is one-in-a-million. And she loves him for it. Which brings us to Tom and Laura. Laura ends up mediating between her mother and brother, asking him to apologize, trying to prevent a confrontation when Tom comes home drunk. She understands that Amanda relishes her stories of the past and makes that clear to Tom.

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Scene 1. Tom enters the apartment and joins Amanda and Laura at the dining-room table. The lights dim and music begins to play. Amanda suggests that Laura practice her typing as she waits for gentleman callers to arrive. Scene 2. An image of blue roses appears on the screen. Laura sits in the apartment, polishing her menagerie of glass figures. When she hears Amanda ascending American Revolution D.

She looks upset, and Laura becomes visibly nervous and guilty. Amanda tears the keyboard diagram and typewriting alphabet in two. Amanda tells Laura that she stopped by the business college where Laura has supposedly been enrolled. One of Amanda wonders what will become of Laura , now that her career opportunities have been ruined, and warns her about spinsters dependent on Amanda asks whether Laura has ever liked a boy, and Laura admits that she once had a crush on Scene 3.

Tom says Tom and Amanda are heard arguing behind curtains hanging over a door. Tom attempts Scene 4. Laura opens the door for Tom, and he tells her about the movies and about a Laura begs Tom Amanda says that she has caught Laura She knows that he has received a letter from the merchant marines and that he Amanda asks Tom to bring home a gentleman from the warehouse to introduce to Laura , and as he leaves the apartment, Tom reluctantly agrees. Still troubled but faintly hopeful, Amanda As Tom says, it's not just Laura's being crippled that makes her different, but she is just different.

So she lives in a world of old phonograph records and glass animals. And then the gentleman caller arrives. For the first time we see Laura's inner charm. She is fresh and pretty, and she does have charm — not as Amanda wants it, but in her own individualistic way. She is even capable of forgetting her physical handicap. She responds to Jim because he responds to her difference.