The glass menagerie?

Question

The Glass Menagerie. Can anyone please-

List the characters.

What is each character like?

What does each character want?

What obstacles does each character face?

What is the setting of the story?

How does the setting affect the characters?

What is the main event in each scene?

Is any character able to solve his/her conflict?

Is the conflict of each character an outside force (external conflict) or is the conflict within the character himself (internal conflict)? Explain?

If anyone knows about this book and has some spare time to answer some of these questions, you will be greatly appreciated. thanks in advance : ). oooor just a quick summary would be fine as well

Answer 1

I have not read this novel, but there are a number of online study guides, and quite a few other resources on the web that can help you with this question.  Most of them have quite a bit of good information.  Have a look at these, and you should get some help with your work.  If you do a search you will find many other links.

http://www.courttheatre.org/home/plays/0...

http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/t...

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/menagerie/

http://www.latw.org/acrobat/glass.pdf

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitN...

Answer 2

Amanda Wingfield

Tom (her son)

Laura( her daughter)

Jim(Tom's friend from work)  

Amanda is kind of strange, lives in this fantasy world, and also lives in the past

Tom is inquisitive and likes to write

Laura is extremely shy and has an inferiority complex.

Amanda is faced with trying to find a man for her daughter to marry so she will be taken care off when she can no longer care for her.

Laura is trying to overcome her shyness

Tom is trying to break away from his family who is holding him back.

The setting is in an apartment in Missouri.

The setting affects them because it is small, and they pretty much see the same things everyday. The dance hall across the street is taunting them because it is so full of life and their apartment is not.

The main event is the dinner with Jim and Wingfields.

None of the characters solve their problems.

The conflict is all internal. Man vs himself.