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Possess your soul in patience - you will...

Amanda Wingfield

The Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams

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Gender
Female
Playing Age
Adult, Mature Adult
Style
Comedic
Act/Scene
Act 1, Scene 6
Time & Place
The Wingfield apartment in St. Louis, 1937
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)

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Possess your soul in patience - you will see !

Something I've resurrected from that old trunk! Styles haven't changed so terribly much after all.

[She parts the portières.]

Now just look at your mother !

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No vases to hold them? All right, I'll hold them myself - And then I - [She stops in front of the picture.] met your father ! Malaria fever and jonquils and then - this - boy....

[She switches on the rose-coloured lamp.]

I hope they get here before it starts to rain.

Tennessee Williams. The Glass Menagerie. Act 1, Scene 6.

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