Having broken down when she has taken a speed test,
thereby, proving herself too fragile and sensitive for the Rubiacam's Business
College, Laura retreats to the apartment and her glass menagerie through whose
transluscence illusions can yet be perceived. Thus, the glass menagerie is a refuge for
Laura's dreams and illusionary hopes. It is a place where she does not so gravely feel
her isolation because the little figures are like her, different, delicate and
habituated to the Wingfield apartment.
The glass menagerie
in Scene Three represents the transparent illusion of the imagination and its refuge,
not only for Laura, but also for Amanda, who engages upon a crusade of finding "a
gentleman caller" for Laura in hopes of ensuring their financial security. Amanda fears
that Tom, who goes to movies and reads D. H. Lawrence, entering into worlds outside
their own, may seek out those worlds portrayed in the films and Lawrence's literature
and abandon the family.
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