You should talk about the three main character and their
relationship to both illusion and reality.
Tom seems to
have the firmest grip on reality. He holds down a job and is the economic foundation of
the family. And, although he goes to the movies a lot and craves romance and adventure,
he knows well the difference between his dreams and their possible fruition in reality.
He is smart enough to separate himself from his mother and his sister, and he will
eventually escape from them, cruel as that may be on some
level.
Laura, on the other hand, lives in a world all her
own; it is a world devoid of basic reality and given over to her own illusions. She has
a glass collection of tiny, delicate animals which she constantly polishes and tells
herself stories about. She also plays old, worn-out phonograph records. Except for short
and sweet interactions with her brother and mother, that's pretty much her
life.
Amanda, the mother, is caught between being all too
aware of life's harshest realities and the unreasonable belief that some gallant
gentleman caller will come into her daughter's life and sweep her away, and they will
live happily ever after. She also spends much of her time thinking and talking about the
long-gone, privileged days of her youth.
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