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The Glass Menagerie

I went to the typing instructor and intr...

Amanda Wingfield

The Glass Menagerie
Tennessee Williams

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Show
The Glass Menagerie
Character
Amanda Wingfield
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Adult, Mature Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act 1, Scene 2
Time & Place
The Wingfield apartment in St. Louis, Missouri, 1937
Length
Short
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

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I went to the typing instructor and introduced myself as your mother. She didn’t know who you were. Wingfield, she said. We don’t have any such student enrolled at the school!
[...]
Oh! I felt so weak I could barely keep on my feet! I had to sit down while they got me a glass of water! Fifty dollars’ tuition, all of our plans – my hopes and ambition for you – just gone up the spout, just gone up the spout like that.

Tennessee Williams. The Glass Menagerie. Act 1, Scene 2.

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