Glass Menagerie Quotes

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Amanda

‘Her eyes lift, her face glows, her voice becomes rich and elegiac’

(The Past) (Desire) (Escapeism)

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Question 2

Amanda

‘My hopes and ambition for you…just gone up the spout like that’

(Betrayl) (Desire)

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Question 3

Amanda

‘My devotion has made me a witch and so I make myself hateful to my children!’

(Betrayl) (Desire)

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Question 4

Amanda

‘She just drifts along doing nothing. It frightens me terribly how she just drifts along.’

(Escapism) (Isolation)

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Question 5

Amanda

‘the past turns into everlasting regret if you don’t plan for it’

(Desire) (The Past)

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Question 6

Amanda

‘Then go to the moon – you selfish dreamer!’

(Betrayl) (Escapism) (Abandonment)

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Question 7

Laura

‘It isn’t a flood, it’s not a tornado Mother. I’m just not popular like you were’

(Desire) (Isolation)

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Question 8

Laura

‘My glass! - menagerie’

(Escapism) (Illusion)

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Question 9

Laura

‘A fragile, unearthly prettiness has come out in Laura: she is like a piece of translucent glass touched by light’

(Desire) (Escapism)

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Question 10

Laura

‘Laura’s shyness is dissolving in his warmth.’

(Desire) (Isolation) (Reality)

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Question 11

Laura

‘The horn was removed to make him feel less – freakish!’

(Escapism) (Desire) (Isolation)

Question 12

Laura

‘She blows the candle out’

(Abandonment) (Illusion)

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Question 13

Tom

‘It became an obsession…the image of the gentleman caller haunted our small apartment’

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Question 14

Tom

‘I’ve got no thing, no single thing…In my life here that I can call my own…Yesterday you confiscated my books.’

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Question 15

Tom

‘I’ve got no thing, no single thing…In my life here that I can call my own…Yesterday you confiscated my books.’

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Question 16

Tom

‘If self is what I thought of Mother, I’d be where he is – GONE!’

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Question 17

Tom

‘Adventure is something I don’t have much of at work, so I go to the movies’

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Question 18

Tom

‘She lives in a world of her own – a world of little glass ornaments’

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Question 19

Tom

‘At high school Laura had been as unobtrusive as Jim had been astonishing’

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Question 20

Tom

‘I reach for a cigarette, I cross the street, I run into the movies or a bar, I buy a drink, I speak to the nearest stranger – anything that can blow your candles out!’

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