Monday, 30 March 2009

• by Tennesse Williams

  The Glass Menagerie character chart                  --   Raewyn

   

  1. Name and role.

  2. One word to describe them and reason for it.

  3. Facts and personality according to others and themselves.

  4. Life’s ‘truth’ quotes from each character.

  5. My favourite quotes from each.

   

  Tom - brother/narrator	Laura            - sister	Jim       - g’man caller	Amanda           - mother
  Imploding - He’s trapped and angry, restless and unsatisfied, but he has nothing to safely direct the negative emotions towards and so he holds it all inside where it shreds him inside out.	Hiding - She is terrified of the world and everyone in it, lacking any confidence in her own abilities, and so she stays in a separate world she understands.	Determined - He know what he’ll miss if he stays in the shadows, and doesn’t want to miss it, so he decides he will continue to move forward and deal with the ever changing future.	Denying - She can’t accept the present, it doesn’t fit the plans she had for it and so she ploughs through it without seeing it so she can reach the future where she believes all her hard work’s prizes are waiting.
  - Thomas Wingfield - “Shakespeare” - twenty-two y/old - an amateur poet; writes all the time at work - makes $65 a month at the shoe factory - spends all his free time at the movies - smokes a pack of cigarettes a day - friends with Jim since high school - extremely sarcastic - Amanda: “Go to the moon- you selfish dreamer!” (pg 65) - Tom: “There’s so much in my heart that I can’t describe to you!” (pg 40)     - Jim: “You’re going to be out of a job if you don’t wake up.” (pg 78)	- Laura Wingfield - “Blue Roses” - twenty-four y/old - dropped out of business collage - collects and cares for glass animals - will muster great determination to avoid the ‘greater evil’ (walks in the park to avoid mom) - Laura: “I’m crippled.” (pg 35) - Amanda: “She just drifts along doing nothing.” (pg 52) - Tom: “She’s terribly shy and lives in a world of her own and those things make her seem a little peculiar to people.” (pg 65) - Jim: “A little physical defect is what you have. Hardly noticeable even! Magnified thousands of times by imagination!” (pg 105)	- James Delaney O’Conner - twenty-three y/old - makes app. $85 a month as a shipping clerk at the shoe factory - was one of the best singers in high school - won the silver cup for debating in high school - Tom: “He is the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for.” (pg 23) - Jim: “I’m disappointed but I’m not discouraged.” (pg 96)   - Laura: “You had such a friendly way.” (pg 96) - Amanda: “My, but you are ambitious!” (pg 111)	- Amanda Wingfield - unknown, but could be near 70 - a member at the D.A.R - sales caller for the magazine The Homemaker’s Companion - Tom: “You’re not a sphinx.” (pg 58) - Laura: “Mother, when you’re disappointed, you get that awful suffering look on your face,” (pg 33) - Amanda: “My devotion has made me a witch and so I make myself hateful to my children!” (pg 48)   - (Amanda: “I was such a gay girl!”) Jim: “You haven’t changed,” (pg 110)
  Tom: Pg 45: “You know it don’t take much intelligence to get yourself into a nailed-up coffin, Laura. But whoever got him self out without removing one nail?”   Pg 52: “Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter..!”   Pg 79: People go to the movies instead of moving! Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody (in America), while everybody (in America) sits in a dark room and watches them have them!”		Jim: Pg 94: “Everybody has got problems, not just you, but practically everybody has got some problems. You think of yourself as having the only problems, as being the only one who is disappointed. But just look around you and you will see lots of people as disappointed as you are.”   Pg 99: “Everybody excels in some one thing. Some in many!”   Pg 105: “The different people are not like other people, but being different is nothing to be ashamed of.”	Amanda: Pg 63: “… the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don’t plan for it!”   Pg 64: “Character’s what to look for in a man.”
  Pg 23: “Their eyes had failed them, or they failed their eyes,”   Pg 42: Tom’s whole sarcastic speech.   Pg 44: “One crack- and it falls through!” (the key)   pg 65: “(Laura) is ours and we love her.”   Pg 76: “Well, now you know. I have one.” (a sister)	Pg 101: “I haven’t heard any arguments among them!” (glass animals)	Pg 35: “Hello, Blue Roses!”   Pg 76: (Laura’s hand is cold, she was just playing the Victrola) “Must have been playing classical music on it!”   Pg 85: “Hey, there, Mr. Light Bulb!”   Pg 87: “Shakespeare probably wrote a poem on that light bill...”   Pg 102: “I’m not made out of glass.”	Pg 56: “Comb your hair! You look so pretty when your hair is combed!” (Tom)   Pg 58: “Is my head so transparent?” Pg 64: “No girl can do worse than put herself at the mercy of a handsome appearance!”   Pg 65: “You’re as eloquent as an oyster.” (Tom)

   

  Favourite scenes:

  Pg 54- Amanda trying to get Tom to bring home a caller.

  Pg 62- Amanda brushing Tom’s hair.

  Pg 95- The Pirates of Penzance.

  
  

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