Williams, Tennessee The Glass Menagerie Essay, Research Paper

?On those occasions they call me – Ell

Diablo! Oh, I could tell you things to make you sleepless!

My enemies plan to dynamite this place. They?re going to blow us

all sky-high some night! I?ll be glad, very happy, and so will you!

You?ll go up, up on a broomstick, over Blue Mountain with seventeen gentlemen

callers!? Tom says this to Amanda in a fit of rage.

?But the most wonderfullest trick of all

was the coffin trick…. There is a trick that would come in handy

for me-get me out of this 2 by 4 situation.? Tom says this to Laura

after coming back drunk from the movies and magic show.

?Laura! Why, Laura, you are sick,

darling! Tom, help your sister into the living room, dear!

… I told her that it was just too warm this evening, but – Is Laura

all right now?? Amanda tells this to Laura, Jim and Tom at the dinner.

?You know what I judge to be the trouble

with you? Inferiority complex! Know what that is? That?s

what they call it when someone low-rates himself! I understand it

because I had it, too. Although my case was not so aggravated as

yours seems to be.? Jim tells this to Laura when they are alone together

after the dinner.