Well written book. Review on Glass Menagerie, The - Tennessee Williams

A play of stunning language and vivid descriptions of the characters, Tennessee Williams is one of the greatest play writers of all times. This play is wonderful to read, and it is amazing to see how Tennessee Williams weaved his life stories into this little play. As the narrator, Tom, didn’t know whether to leave his mother, Amanda, ever badgering worries and criticisms or to stay with his mother and be close to his dear sister Laura. Tom tried to ignore what his mother was saying, but couldn’t so he took up drinking. Meanwhile, unaware of Tom’s distress, Amanda tried to find Laura a good suitor after she found out that Laura had dropped out of business school. Finding a suitor for Laura later became an obsession for Amanda because she wanted Laura to lead a good life afterwards. Throughout her whole childhood through adulthood, Laura, was always a very quiet and shy girl who was always worried about her clubfoot which she contracted when she was afflicted with polio. To forget about it, she wrapped herself up in her own fantasy world of her glass collection, which her mother called “the glass menagerie”. In their own separate worlds the family bonds they once used to have were slowly starting to break one strand at a time, until one day, Tom invited a friend from work to meet Laura. On that one day, everything depended on the one gentleman caller to put the family back together.