The Glass Menagerie Scene 3

Tom opens the scene as the narrator explaining that there is a specter and a hope hovering over the apartment. What is it?

• Laura's father has died and left her a considerable amount of money.
  
• There are prospects for a gentleman caller for Laura.
  
• Tom has been offered a better position in another city. They are all going with him. 
• Amanda has decided to let Laura live her own life. 

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What character in The Glass Menagerie does this image symbolize?

• Amanda
• Tom 
• Laura 
• Jim

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What ignited the argument between Tom and Amanda?

• Amanda returned his novel by D.H. Lawrence to the library because she considered it to be obscene.
  
• Amanda called Tom's boss and asked him for a raise for Tom.
  
• Amanda is angry because she found out that Tom has a girlfriend. She told him to stop seeing her.
  
• Amanda didn't give him an important letter that he had received from his father. 

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Why is Tom mad?

• He is jealous because his mother pays more attention to Laura than to him. 
• He doesn't want Laura to have any male visitors.
  
• He is working a job he hates to support his mother and sister, and yet his mother still attempts to control him.
  
• He wants Amanda to use the money she is earning to buy him a car, but she won't. 

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Laura is always quietly there but never directly involved in the skirmishes between Tom and Amanda. She is the one with the most to lose; her life is the fragile one because she is incapable of fending for herself. How is this shown in this act? 

• She doesn't do much of the talking.
  
• She cries a lot.
  
• The pieces of the glass menagerie break accidentally. 
• Tom and Amanda are shown as much stronger. 

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