Amanda Wingfield The mother of great but confessed vitality cling frantically to another time and place.
Laura Wingfield her daughter Amanda, Laura a childhood illness has left her crippled,one leg slightly shorter than the other, and held brace
Tom Wingfield her son and the narrator of the play. A poet with a job in warehouse. His nature is not remorseless, but to escape from a trap he has to act without pity.
Jim O'Connor the gentleman caller a nice, ordinary young man.
I am the narrator of the play, and also a character in it. The other characters are my mother Amanda, my sister Laura and gentleman caller who appears in the final scenes he is the most realistic character in the play.
Fire Escape
Fire Escape
since i have poet's weakness for symbols, i am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long delayed but always expected something that we live for . There is a fifth character in the play who doesn't appear except in this large-than-life size photograph over mantel.
This is our father who left us a long time ago. He was a telephone company and skipped the light fantastic out of town. The last time we heard of him was a picture postcard from Mazatlan,on the pacific coast of Mexico,containing a message of two words- "Hello- Good-bye" and no address i think the rest of play will explain it- self..
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