description: Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, life in Blue Mountain when she was pursued by 'gentleman callers'. Her son Tom, a poet with a job in a warehouse, longs for adventure and escape from his mother's suffocating embrace, while Laura, her daughter, has her glass menagerie and her memories.
language: English
title: The Glass Menagerie
titlecomplete: The Glass Menagerie
characters: Tom Wingfield, Laura Wingfield, Amanda Wingfield, Jim O'Connor
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, American, Drama, School, Literature, Read For School, Classics, High School
ratings_count: 130508
places: St. Louis, Missouri, The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: -788893200000
name: New York Drama Critics' Circle Award
category: Best American Play
publisher: Chand (S.) & Co Ltd ,India