description: Amanda is a mother who is a victim of fantasies about her withdrawn daughter, Laura. Laura wears a leg-brace because of a crippling childhood illness and is at home only in her private world that centers on a collection of glass animal figures. When Amanda persuades her son, Tom, to invite a friend from work for dinner with hopes that it will lead to romance for Laura, it changes the family forever.
language: English
title: The Glass Menagerie
titlecomplete: The Glass Menagerie (New Directions Books)
characters: Tom Wingfield, Jim O'Connor, Amanda Wingfield, Laura Wingfield
genres: Theatre, Drama, Classics, American, Plays, Read For School, High School, School, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 130500
places: St. Louis, Missouri, The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: -788893200000
name: New York Drama Critics' Circle Award
category: Best American Play
publisher: Turtleback Books