"The Glass Menagerie", written by Tennessee William, is a great play of profoundly characterization. Whithin only scene one of the play, we can visualize and understand the characteristics of all characters, especially Amanda, an overbearing mother of illusion but need much more sympathetic. As mother, Amanda decides everything in the family and requires her children's obeying without caring of their feeling. That is why Tom is very annoying ""I haven't enjoyed one bite of this …showed first 75 words of 533 total…

…showed last 75 words of 533 total…ambition, they would love her mother much more instead of always trying to do anything she dislikes. Amanda appears in scene one and in the whole story as the main character, the center or the cause of all conflicts in the family. However, like all mother in the world, she still loves her children so much, always wants to protect them and that leads to the overbearing manner that causes an negative effect on them. .