The Glass Menagerie Characters

Laura is oh-so-fragile, not unlike her glass collection. Hey! Coincidence? Probably not. In fact, definitely not. Laura parallels her glass collection in a few different ways. To begin, she has the...

Tom’s your narrator. You can tell because he introduces himself that way and then proceeds to, well, narrate the play. He waxes poetic a lot about the nature of memory, the 1930s, glass, and...

Oh, Amanda – where do we begin? What’s that song? Something about some woman stuck in 1985. Yeah – that’s pretty much Amanda, except it’s the early 1900’s. Becau...

Jim is ordinary. Seem simplistic? That’s what we thought, too, when we read the introduction and Williams only says "a nice, ordinary, young man." Not too much to work with, right? WRONG! May...