"I go to movies because-I like adventure. Adventure is something I don't have much of at work, so I go to the movies." (pg. 1252)
All of the Wingfields are dreamers. Amanda dreams about her son being rich and her daughter being popular. She wants Tom to have a secure job so that he can have nice things. She wants Laura to be a businesswoman or have lots of suitors and get married. She doesn't see what her children really are or what they want. Tom wants adventure. He wants to write poems and have an interesting life, but he works at a warehouse. He doesn't have adventure in his life, so he likes to go to the movies and dream he does. Laura lives in the world of her glass figures. She can't deal well with the real world, so she hides in the house and polishes her little animal figurines. She doesn't see that this isn't the real world and that she can't live like that forever.
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