toms escapism personality in the play “The glass menagerie”

Sub-topic 2 His guilt is perpetuated by his mother who pressures him into staying. Eventually she will accept his leaving as long as he brings home a gentleman caller.

Evidence 1: his risking his job….

Source: (Williams, p.  )  tom explains he was fired shortly after leaving for writing poems on the job scene 7 “I didn’t go to the moon, I went much further — for time is the longest distance between two places. Not long after that I was fired for writing a poem on the lid of a shoe-box.” 

Evidence 2:..she guilt him 
Source: (Williams, p. )  “I mean that as soon as Laura has got somebody to take care of her, married, a home of her own, independent — why, then you’ll be free to go wherever you please, on land, on sea, whichever way the wind blows you! But until that time you’ve got to look out for your sister. I don’t say me because I’m old and don’t matter! I say for your sister because she’s young and dependent.” scene 4

 

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