I luv yu like a sista!

"I wish that you were my sister.  I'd teach you to have some confidence in yourself.  The different people are not like other people, but being different is nothing to be ashamed of.  Because other people are not such wonderful people" Scene 7, page 1283.

This blog is in response to question number nine.

Amanda asked Tom to find Laura a gentleman caller so that she would be happy and live a little.  What did Tom do- surprising as it was?  He actually listened to his mother and found Laura a gentleman caller, but not just any.  No, he chose a co-worker who he had to known that Laura knew slightly in the past.  The fact that Jim was already going steady and that Laura had a crush on him in the past both make me feel like Tom picked Jim with a specific goal in mind.

The entire time that I read scene seven, I could not help but think about the tone that Jim was using with Laura.  When Jim was talking to Laura about her unicorn, the tone that Jim used was not that of a man trying to win a lady's heart, but rather that of a babysitter playing with dolls and trying to act really impressed by her collection.  Honestly, I have never felt so awkward reading a passage before now.  Congratulations.  I think that when Tom asked Jim to join his family for dinner, he had planned ahead that Jim and Laura would end up in their own room.  Here was where Jim convinced Laura that she was better than a "crippled girl."  Sometimes the best way to break open the chains trapping a person is to introduce them to their childhood idol and force them to interact.  Hearing Jim's story may have just been what Laura needed in her life.

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.