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... One such fascinating case study is the fictional character Tom Wingfield, the troubled and reluctant breadwinner of the Wingfield family, in acclaimed playwright Tennessee Williams’ famous family drama The Glass Menagerie. Tom Wingfield proves himself to truly be his father’s child when he is thrust into the role of principal provider and protector of the family--a situation that tests his true character. In this role, he exhibits his absent father’s same disdain for the responsibilities of supporting his family by means of a lackluster yet stable job and quickly succumbs to the same irresponsible and escapist behaviors that in spite of his and his mother Amanda Wingfield’s best efforts eventually lead him to make the identical drastic decision his father did sixteen years earlier.
Although Tom is forced to work an unfulfilling job at the Continental Shoemaker’s Factory in order to support his crippled fragile sister Laura and appease his demanding meddling mother Amanda, he has the same thirst for adventure and freedom as his father whom he describes as a former “telephone man who fell in love with long distances” and who shortly thereafter disowned the family to seek adventure in paradise. Tom is a young man prematurely weighed down by the responsibility of providing for the family that his father has abandoned and is trapped in an environment that makes it impossible to actively pursue his true passions of traveling and writing poetry.
Approximate Word count = 1044
Approximate Pages = 4.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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