Tennessee Williams' character Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie is a bold and persuasive personality devoted to the past. Amanda was abandoned by her husband and left to raise two children alone during the Great Depression. Haunted by her husband's rejection, she is determined to keep her children close. Even if keeping your children close means using guilt and criticism to manipulate every aspect of their lives. Amanda's domineering behavior caused Mr. Wingfield to flee and is now leading her son toward a similar escape. Amanda is an assertive and compelling individual, unafraid to take charge of any situation to ensure the outcome undoubtedly complements her desires. She continually reminds her son, Tom, of his obligation to provide for the family and the security his job provides. Amanda considers a single woman in the 1930s unusual and constantly begs Tom to keep his lapsed job to ensure that her daughter, Laura, is taken care of until she is married and independent. While at the same time extinguishing all of Tom's hopes and dreams for his own future (1646; sc. 4). Amanda's main goal is to find someone to care for her emotionally fragile daughter (1638; sc. 3). Perceived as a caring mother, she uses guilt to guide the very existence of her children. Amanda emotionally cripples her children by continually criticizing their eating habits, their career paths, their social behaviors, the way they should dress, speak, and entertain themselves (1632; sc. 1). Insisting that Tom's behavior is too much like her father's, she believes his actions are preventing him from succeeding. All the while believing that nagging him to behave as she expects will make a difference. Amanda tells Tom that in the middle of the paper, children talking about parties in the South helps explain his dissatisfaction with his current lifestyle. She is hopelessly destined to remain unchanged and destined to repeat the same mistakes that drove out her husband (1632; sc. 1). In the climatic scene where Amanda realizes that Jim is engaged to someone else, she lashes out at Tom. Assuming he knew Jim's fiancée, Amanda hatefully said, "Don't think of us, an abandoned mother, an unmarried sister." Don't let anything interfere with your selfish pleasure. Go, go, go (1676; sc.7)”. Tom finally leaves. Due to Amanda's controlling nature, the Wingfield family falls apart and Tom flees his frustrated existence, but his escape does not give him the freedom he expects. He is forever tormented by the memory of Laura, just as Amanda is forever tormented by the memory of her long lost husband..