The Glass Menagerie Dreams, Hopes, and Plans Quotes Page 1
Citations follow this format: (Scene.Line). Every time a character talks counts as one line, even if what they say turns into a big long monologue.
| Quote #1 I am the narrator of the play, and also a character in it. The other characters are my mother, Amanda, and my sister, Laura, and a gentlemen caller who appears in the final scenes. He is the most realistic character in the play, being an emissary from a world of reality that we were somehow set apart from. But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character as a symbol; he is the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for. (1.1, Tom). |
Tom understands that Jim is more than just a gentleman caller; he is the epitome of everything Amanda desires for her daughter.
| Quote #2 "What are we going to do, what is going to become of us, what is the future?" (2.10, Amanda). |
Amanda oscillates between reminiscing over the past and planning for the future.
| Quote #3 "Oh! I felt so weak I could barely keep on my feet! I had to sit down while they got me a glass of water! Fifty dollars’ tuition, all of our plans – my hopes and ambitions for you – just gone up the spout, just gone up the spout like that." (2.16, Amanda). |
Amanda’s plans for her children’s futures fail because they are irreconcilable with what her children actually want.
