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Is being able to shut off one’s mind like a light switch a blessing or does it signify a detachment from reality? The characters in Tennessee Williams’s play The Glass Menagerie are all able to ignore the problems of their world, just as if they were turning ....

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.... the same of Laura “Stay fresh and pretty! It’s almost time for our gentlemen callers to be arriving. I don’t believe that we are going to receive any, Mother. What! No one-not one? You must be joking!” (35). Amanda is constantly trying to set up a caller for Laura everywhere that she goes. For Amanda it becomes and obsession. She also is upset that when they finally do get a caller that it has been the first one to the house “It’s a terrible, dreadful, disgraceful that poor little sister has never received a single gentleman caller!” (74). Finally when Amanda gets her wish she makes Laura so nervous that she becomes ill. When a m ....