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What do you think of Amanda in The Glass Menagerie? Why do you think she is stuck in the past? What harm has that done to Tom and Laura?

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Characters in "The Glass Menagerie" are examined in terms of past themes.

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As you list what you think of Amanda in the play, please allow my ideas to help:

First of all, I definitely think that Amanda is a woman who is trapped in the past. She has difficult in accepting the realities of her life and longs to be the perfect, popular Southern Belle that she once was. As a result, I think that she wants to live her life vicariously through her children's lives; as a result, I ...

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