Does Amanda really love her children or is she just using them? I just read the play and wondered what others opinions are.
2007-03-27 08:05:45 · 7 answers · asked by txliz91 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Performing Arts
I agree with other reposnses here that Amanda loves her children very much, and that her expressions of her love have enormous effects on Tom and Laura.
It is also worth noting that the play is a memory play: the audience sees everything through the lens of Tom's memory....and memory is often imperfect and biased. It may be that the *actual* impact of Amanda's love on her children is (or would be, if these characters were real people) somewhat different than the impact which Tom's memory shows us.
Thanks for getting me thinking again about this beautiful play.
:-)
2007-03-28 03:44:39 · answer #1 · answered by Robin Frog 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Amanda In The Glass Menagerie
2016-11-08 01:07:14 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
she loves her children the only way she knows how. and it is her downfall
she smothers laura with protective love, and it is ultimately crippling for laura because amanda is just going to keep on shielding laura, preventing her from the unpleasant life experiences that everyone must experience in order to grow and mature. her handicap is not just her leg, her handicap is also partially her mother. the glass menagerie is symbolic of laura and her fragility. so pure, so innocent, so naive. and so fragile too.
tom, on the other hand, who is less loved, at least in my opinion, is the one who's going to go farther in life. he hasn't been shielded from everything and as a result, even though he is growing more cynical and slightly hardened, he has experienced life for all it's worth. he has seen the good and the bad of life. and he is prepared for the real world.
2007-03-27 14:13:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Amanda gives the love she is capable of. Not much compared to what we consider the love of a good mother.
2007-03-27 09:23:14 · answer #4 · answered by DramaGuy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-19 15:13:51 · answer #5 · answered by condon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She loves her children and wants the best for them; unfortunately she does not realize the destructive consequences that her nagging behavior causes. In addition, her idea of "the best" is different from what would truly make her children happy.
2007-03-27 10:50:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
amanda loves as much as she can.
2007-03-29 16:46:51 · answer #7 · answered by Just me 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋