The Glass Menagerie #1

The play employs realistic and nonrealistic conversations. The conversations between the characters are realistic because there are conversations that show Amanda's overbearing nature and Tom's distractedness. It can also be nonrealistic because the play is a memory play, so everything is Tom's memories. Because it is Tom's memory, the conversations can be skewed towards him. There are breaks from conversation a lot in the play because it always seems that Amanda is admonishing one of her children. After, they escape; Tom goes out the fire escape to the movies and Laura retreats inside herself. I think that they are natural because most people will not stay long enough for people to keep scolding them. Also, I think that Amanda's personality is unrealistic because she is very motherly, but she also calls Laura a cripple in a fit of anger, so she doesn't really have respect for her.