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In Tennessee Williams’s play “Glass Menagerie” the three main characters all have a way in which they like to escape their current place in the world. One way is physical and another more mentally. The daughter Laura escapes to her glass menagerie, the mother, Amanda, whisks away to her past as a young girl, and the son, Tom, to the movies where he dreams of the adventures he will have in The Union of Merchant Seamen. I believe that Amanda escapes to her past for comfort. Her life did not turn out the way that she had envisioned. She did not marry a planter and has to work for living. She expected to be taken care of by her husband and now she is just some old maid and she is in denial. Laura drifts to the time when she was a young girl living in the south and she h