1. THE GLASS MENAGERIE
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

2. SETTING 1930 St Louis (Great Depression)
The Wingfield apartment- 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.

3. CHARACTERS
Laura Wingfield - She is the crippled and very shy daughter of Amanda who nags Laura about finding a husband.

4. Tom Wingfield - The narrator and actor
As Laura’s brother, 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.

5. 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.

6. 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

7. 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.

8. What is a “glass menagerie”
noun 1. a collection of wild or unusual animals, especially for exhibition. 2. a place where they are kept or exhibited. 3. an unusual and varied group of people.