# The Glass Menagerie

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- Book: [The Glass Menagerie](https://www.bookquiver.com/tennessee-williams/the-glass-menagerie) ([The Glass Menagerie.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/tennessee-williams/the-glass-menagerie.md))
- Authors: [Tennessee Williams](https://www.bookquiver.com/tennessee-williams)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4197-506-1
- Published: 2014-04-24
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, more gracious 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 shy crippled daughter, has her glass menagerie and her memories. Amanda is desperate to find her daughter a husband, but when the long-awaited gentleman caller does arrive, Laura's romantic illusions are crushed.