CHARACTER BREAKDOWNS: TOM WINGFIELD – 20s-30s, a very serious young man who represents the young Tennessee Williams. He narrates and takes a part in the story of his family’s life in St. Louis. He reads, writes poetry and yearns for adventure, but is trapped in the squalid, petty world of the Wingfield household. He struggles with his love for his mother and sister, and his resentment of their negative influence on his life. AMANDA WINGFIELD –Unstable matriarch of the Wingfield clan, mother of Tom and Laura. A woman who had many “gentlemen callers” in her youth, she is now a woman deserted by her husband, the father of her children. She has moved from the south to live in a squalid apartment in St. Louis and finds it difficult to adjust, preferring to remain living in the past. LAURA WINGFIELD – a painfully shy young woman – described by her brother as hopelessly peculiar and incapable of surviving in the outside world. She retreats into a collection of glass animals which she sees as her only reliable “friends.” She had a crush on Jim in high school, but never let him know; and he is as close to being her love as any other human being. JIM – the “gentleman caller” who comes to visit Laura, was someone on whom she had a crush in high school. He is a self-described “stumblejohn,” a very likeable but clumsy young man. He cares for Laura and even asserts that her “oddness” is a positive thing – probably in an effort to retain a humanitarian kindness when faced with a potential love which he recognizes is hopeless.
Posted on: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 15:17:23 +0000
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