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In the film the Glass Menagerie, Tom typically wears a suit without a tie and walks like he could fall down any second. He smokes a lot too.
When he is not seeing movies or drinking alcohol.

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Tom is well mannered around other people, but when around his mother, things can get messy real fast.

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Amanda’s son and Laura’s younger brother. An aspiring poet, Tom works at a shoe warehouse to support the family. He is frustrated by the numbing routine of his job and escapes from it through movies, literature, and alcohol. Tom appears to be middle aged and younger than twenty-three, since Laura is that age and Tom is a younger brother to Laura.

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Tom is the narrator. You can tell because he introduces himself that way and then proceeds to, well, narrate the play. He waxes poetic a lot about the nature of memory, the 30´s. But Tom focuses on what ends up being the core of his character, his desire to get out of town. Tom wants adventure, excitement, new experiences, new places; in short, the opposite of what he was getting working at the warehouse and living at home. He is also a reader and a writer, yet chastised by his mother for the former and eventually fired for the latter.

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Tom is sitting with Laura, telling her about mother´ s annoying personality.

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“Being   a   memory   play,  it   is   dimly   lighted,  it   is   sentimental,  it   is   not   realistic.  In   memory   everything   seems   to   happen   to   music.   That   explains   the   fiddle   in   the   wings.  I   am   the   narrator   of   the   play,  and   also   a   character   in   it.   The   other   characters   are   my  mother   Amanda,  my   sister   Laura   and   a   gentleman   caller   who   appears   in   the   final   scenes.  He   is   the   most   realistic   character   in   the   play,  being   an   emissary   from   a   world   of   reality  that   we   were   somehow   set   apart   from.   But   since   I   have   a   poet's   weakness   for   symbols” (2)

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“ Yesterday   you   confiscated   my   books   !   You   had   the   nerve   to…  House,  house   !   Who   pays   rent   on   it,  who   makes   a   slave   of   himself.” (17-18)

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“ I   haven't   enjoyed   one   bite   of   this   dinner   because   of   your   constant   directions   on   how   to   eat  it.   It's   you   that   makes   me   rush   through   meals   with   your   hawk-like   attention   to   every   bite   I   take.  Sickening  -  spoils   my   appetite  -  all   this   discussion   of  -  animals'   secretion  -  salivary   glands  - mastication   !” (3)

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The Glass Menagerie: Original Music (Cue #1)

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Most importantly, Tom is able to bring Laura out of her floating state of unreality; for once, he is able to make her feel secure and loved. These are the idealized personality aspects. Jim is different from Tom.

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¨ (He   pulls   from   his   back  pocket   a   shimmering  rainbow-coloured   scarf.)   He   gave   me   this.   This   is   his   magic   scarf.   You   can   have   it,  Laura.   You  wave   it   over  like  a   canary.¨ (23)

When Tom gives the rainbow scarf to  Laura, it shows that he cares about her enough to give her a gift that appeals to Laura as a personal connection between her and Tom. When Tom says ¨You wave it over like a canary.¨ he  is describing Laura as a beautiful bird waving the rainbow scarf.

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Short tempered person around his disapproving mother
Likes to spend time with his Sister Laura