Amanda Wingfield is a character in the play The Glass Menagerie, which is set in St. Louis in 1973. She is from a genteel southern family and has a prominent southern upbringing. She is a mother to two children, Tom and Laura; her husband abandoned the family and left her to raise two children. Amanda loves her children immensely and lives for them, but can often come across as overbearing and constantly nagging to both Tom and Laura. It is as if Amanda fluctuates between illusion and reality; like she closes her eyes to the brutal realistic world. Through her actions, it seems as if she is living in an illusionary world of her youth. Some would say she is evil, but I think she is just deeply flawed. It is as if the fluctuation between these two worlds is her only defense between the loneliness and emptiness of what her life has become.
Amanda is different from most people. Her southern upbringing is extremely apparent. She lives in her own little world and crosses back and forth......
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