about+the+play

Main Characters** > > > go back
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 * Laura Wingfield - She is the crippled and very shy daughter of Amanda who keeps her hard pressed to finding a husband.
 * Tom Wingfield - As Laura’s sister, he is also pressed by his mother to find his sister a gentleman caller, and to keep the job at the shoe factory to support the family.
 * Amanda Wingfield - She is the mother of Tom and Laura and often digresses back to memories of her former days on the southern plantation farm and her night with 17 gentleman callers.
 * Jim O’Conner - He is a friend of Tom from the factory who Tom invites to dinner and Amanda treats as Laura’s first gentleman caller.
 * Minor Characters**
 * Mr. Wingfield - He is Amanda’s husband who deserted the family about 16 years ago and is only seen in the play as a large photograph hung on the wall, but he is often referred to.
 * Settings**
 * The Wingfield house - This takes up most of the stage and the different room are separated by curtains. There is the living and the kitchen.
 * The fire escape - This is on the side of the stage and is what the characters use to get into and out of the apartment.
 * Tone**
 * Tragic; sarcastic; bleak
 * Theme**
 * The difficulty of accepting reality; the impossibility of true escape; the unrelenting power of memory