No really- break all the glass you want!

"I don't have favorites much.  It's no tragedy, Freckles.  Glass breaks so easily.  No matter how careful you are.  The traffic jars the shelves and things fall off them" Scene 7, page 1283.

Two things I just realized while I was typing the quotes out onto this blog.

1. She has a pet name for him!  It must be true love now.
2. Jars was the verb of that sentence... it makes so much more sense than when I was trying to figure out what a "traffic jar" was.

All my illiteracy aside, I am going to be answering question six in the book about the importance behind Laura's glass menagerie and it's symbolic meaning.

If you clicked on the sound button, I am sad to inform you that this is a picture.  Ere go, the button does not work.

To Laura, the world was a menagerie.
To Amanda, the collection was a menagerie.

Laura had a different look on life because of her highly introverted personality.  Her heart was glass and her leg was a horn.  She was quick to break and even quicker to notice her slight differences from the rest of society.  It was not a tragedy that her life was shattered because she knew that "glass breaks so easily."  Even the traffic of life was able to shatter her life and make it just a shatter of pieces that society thought was correct.

So why did she react more harshly when Tom broke her collection versus when Jim broke her "favorite" unicorn?  Good question Perrine, but I have a null hypothesis to match your parameter!  You see Perrine, Tom broke shattered Laura's collection in an angry fit, where as Jim healed an otherwise distorted piece of glass.  Laura equated herself with the unicorn because of it's difference that made it stand out, but when Tom showed her there was nothing different about her, she changed her mind from the unicorn being her favorite to not having an actual favorite.