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Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)
Genders
  • Female: 1
  • Male: 1
Style
Dramatic
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Time/Place
St. Louis, 1940s
Act/Scene
Scene 5

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Start: Amanda: Son, will you do me a favor?
Tom: What?
Amanda: Comb your hair! You look so pretty when your hair is combed!

End: Amanda: Now, darling, wish!
Laura: What shall I wish for, mother?
Amanda: Happiness! Good fortune!

Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie New York: New Directions, 1999. pp.38-49.

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