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"I'm   getting   a   cigarette.  AMANDA:   You   smoke   too   much."  This shows that tom smokes a lot according to Amanda.

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"House,  house   !   Who   pays   rent   on   it,  who   makes   a   slave   of   himself   to". He is feeling like he doesn’t get enough respect for all that he is doing for the family

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"What   right   have   you   got   to   jeopardize   your   job  -  jeopardize   the   security   of   us   all?  How   do   you   think   we'd   manage"

This shows that amanda relies on tom and his job but doesn’t respect him and only uses him for his money.

This picture is over a man who seems very stressed which is how I imagine tom is all the time.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkMVyw-7avI
I pick this song because I feel like it portrays to tom a lot with what he does for his family and all he deals with from Amanda

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"The Wingfield apartment is in the rear of the building, one of those vast hive-like conglomerations of cellular living-units that flower as warty growths in overcrowded urban centers." (stage directions)

The play is set in an apartment in St. Louis

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In the play it is very known that Tom smokes a lot.

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“Who   pays   rent   on   it,  who   makes   a   slave   of   himself   to-”

This shows that tom works for the family and pays all the bills in his family.
The picture below shows a guy with money who obviously isn't happy which is how I picture tom feels with his life.

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“I   reach   for   a   cigarette,  I   cross   the   street,  I   run   into   the   movies   or   a   bar,  I   buy   a   drink,  I   speak   to  the   nearest   stranger  -anything   that   can   blow   your   candles   out “

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“Yes,  I   have   tricks   in   my   pocket,  I   have   things   up   my   sleeve.   But   I   am   the   opposite   of   a  stage   magician.   He   gives   you   illusion   that   has   the   appearance   of   truth.   I   give   you   truth   in   the  pleasant   disguise   of   illusion.”Tom Compares himself to a Magician with how his life is and how he feels about it

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“I'm   right   at   the   point   of   committing   myself   to   a   future   that  doesn't   include   the   warehouse   and   Mr   Mendoza   or   even   a   night-school   course   in   public   speaking.”

This is what tom says to jim and it shows that he has a want to change from his norms and tires of his life.

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“I'm   starting   to   boil   inside.   I   know   I   seem   dreamy,  but   inside  -  well,  I'm   boiling   !  -  Whenever   I   pick   up   a   shoe,  I   shudder   a   little   thinking   how   short   life   is   and   what   I   am   doing!”

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“I   like   a   lot   of   adventure.” This quote to me shows that tom not only likes adventure but he uses adventure as a way to get away from his life and it helps him imagine himself somewhere else.

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I imagine Tom as a kinda skinnier guy who isn't the most well dressed.

I see tom as being constantly unsettled and unhappy. If there were a movie made about this as if they were in real time I could see someone like Aiden Brody playing him because he's dark and skinny.

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"I think you’ve been doing things that you’re ashamed of. That’s why you act like this. I don’t believe that you go every night to the movies. Nobody goes to the movies night after night. Nobody in their right minds goes to the movies as often as you pretend to."
Amanda reveals her fears and suspicions about tom and him drinking

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"I’ll tell you what I wished for on the moon. Success and happiness for my precious children! I wish for that whenever there’s a moon, and when there isn’t a moon, I wish for it, too."
In this quote Amanda chastises Tom for being selfish with how he feels and his dreams.
This picture is of a typewriter because this is really what tom wants to do

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"TOM:   No.   You   say   there's   so   much   in   your   heart   that   you   can't   describe   to   me.   That's   true   of   me, too.   There's   so   much   in   my   heart   that   I   can't   describe   to"you!   So   let's   respect   each   other's-"
This describes all the things that Tom wants to do and everything that he is holding in him.

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"People don’t go to the movies at nearly midnight, and movies don’t let out at two A.M. Come in stumbling. Muttering to yourself like a maniac! You get three hours’ sleep and then go to work. Oh, I can picture the way you’re doing down there. Moping, doping, because you’re in no condition."
This is another quote that shows Toms drunkenness and how he copes with his family.

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"It   always   came   upon   me   unawares,  taking   me   altogether   by   surprise.   Perhaps   it   was   a   familiar   bit  of   music.   Perhaps   it   was   only   a   piece   of   transparent   glass.   Perhaps  I   am   walking   along   a   street   at  night,  in   some   strange   city,  before   I   have   found   companions.   I   pass   the   lighted   window   of   a   shop  where   perfume   is   sold.   The   window   is   filled   with   pieces   of   coloured   glass,  tiny   transparent  bottles   in   delicate   colours,  like   bits   of   a   shattered   rainbow."
I think that both of these past quotes depict tom loneliness and his reasoning behind leaving, and how he feels about leaving. Now he has nothing.

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"I   descended   the   step   of   this   fire-escape   for   a   last   time   and   followed,  from   then  on,  in   my   father's   footsteps,  attempting   to   find   in   motion   what   was   lost   in   space  -  I   travelled  around   a   great   deal.   The   cities   swept   about   me   like   dead   leaves,  leaves   that   were   brightly  coloured   but   tom   away   from   the   branches."

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TOM: "mother will you please go away and let me finish my writing?
Amanda: ___
Tom: "Mother please go away busy yourself with something else.  I'm trying to write"

"Look Mother do you think I'm crazy about the warehouse? You think I'm in love with the Continental Shoemakers? You think I want to spend fifty-five years of my life down there in that-celotex interior! Honest to God, I'd rather somebody picked up a crow-bar and battered out my brains- than go back mornings!" This quote shows toms strong feelings on having go back to work everyday.