The Glass Menagerie Today - Michael Weir by Michael Weir https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt Tom en-us 2018-10-23 12:26:42 UTC 2023-03-28 06:04:10 UTC hello@padlet.com weirm4 https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/295897181 "I judge his salary to be approximately eighty-five dollars a month. It's twenty dollars more than I make" (I.Vi.59)

"House, house! Who pays rent on it, who makes himself a slave of himself to-" (I.iii.30)

Tom has a dead-end job that he hates and doesn't even get much money for it. He works hard but gets no reward. The picture below shows a frustrated shoe worker who makes little money, just like Tom.]]> 2018-10-23 12:38:22 UTC https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/295897181 weirm4 https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/295900910 2018-10-23 12:44:13 UTC https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/295900910 weirm4 https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/295901239 "TOM: I have, that's true, driven out! AMANDA: What is the matter with you, you-big-big IDIOT!
TOM: Look! - I've got nothing, no single thing left in this house!" (I.iii.30)

Tom and Amanda struggle between themselves for power. Tom doesn't like being pushed down or told what to do. The following picture shows two Hartebeest's (exotic African animals) butting heads, similar to Tom and Amanda in this situation.]]> 2018-10-23 12:44:50 UTC https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/295901239 weirm4 https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/295903154 2018-10-23 12:48:41 UTC https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/295903154 weirm4 https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/295905107 "TOM enters dressed as a merchant sailor." (I.i.1)

Tom’s appearance as a merchant sailor makes him seem young and full of energy, not wanting to be tied down. Below is an example of a sailor.
]]> 2018-10-23 12:52:19 UTC https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/295905107 weirm4 https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/295906120 2018-10-23 12:54:13 UTC https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/295906120 weirm4 https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/295906582 "The narrator is an undisguised convention of the play. He takes whatever licence with dramatic convention is convenient to his purpose." (I.i.1)

Tom is old enough to have a job and be out of high school but still is relatively young. He makes the story fit to his needs so maybe this is just how he sees himself. I chose this picture because tom is young and doesn't care about much except him and Laura.
]]> 2018-10-23 12:55:05 UTC https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/295906582 weirm4 https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/295911200 2018-10-23 13:02:53 UTC https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/295911200 weirm4 https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/295911895 "TOM: I'm going out to smoke. AMANDA: You smoke too much. A pack a day at fifteen cents a pack." (I.iV.43)

"TOM: I'm getting a cigarette. AMANDA: You smoke too much." (I.i.3)

Tom smokes a lot because he has lots of stress.]]> 2018-10-23 13:04:13 UTC https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/295911895 weirm4 https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/295913050 2018-10-23 13:06:20 UTC https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/295913050 weirm4 https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/295913334 "TOM: ...You'll go up, up on a broomstick, over Blue Mountain with seventeen gentlemen callers! You ugly-babbling old-witch. " (I.iii.20)

Tom has random outbursts of anger toward his overbearing mother because of his stressful situation. This tiger represents Tom's state of emotion.]]> 2018-10-23 13:06:49 UTC https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/295913334 weirm4 https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/295915182 2018-10-23 13:09:49 UTC https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/295915182 weirm4 https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/295916414 "AMANDA: What right have you got to jeopardize your job- jeopardize the security of us all? How do you think we'd manage if you were-" (I.iii.29) 

Amanda seems to hate Tom, but really she just hates her situation and how it seems like it is never going to change. If Tom loses his job than all of them could be out on the street. This picture shows the worry that Amanda has for Tom.
]]> 2018-10-23 13:11:43 UTC https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/295916414 weirm4 https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/295918611 2018-10-23 13:15:19 UTC https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/295918611 weirm4 https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/295918762 "Jim took a humorous attitude toward me. Gradually his attitude affected the others, their hostility wore off and they also began to smile at me as people smile at an oddly fashioned dog who trots across their path at some distance." (I.V.51)

Jim is humorous to Tom but tom doesn't really care. My picture shows this because Jim is humorous]]> 2018-10-23 13:15:37 UTC https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/295918762 weirm4 https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/295923973 2018-10-23 13:23:47 UTC https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/295923973 weirm4 https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/295924630 "TOM: Of course ! And, oh, I forgot! There was a big stage show! The headliner on this stage show was Malvolio the Magician. He performed wonderful tricks, many of them, such as pouring water back and forth between pitchers." (I.iii.28)

Tom copes with what he thinks and feels by escaping what he thinks and feels by going to the movies. The picture I chose for this is someone being stuck because if Tom doesn't stop escaping and do something to change his situation, things aren't going to end up well.]]> 2018-10-23 13:24:45 UTC https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/295924630 weirm4 https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/295926820 2018-10-23 13:28:14 UTC https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/295926820 weirm4 https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/295927363 "TOM: I'm getting a cigarette. AMANDA: You smoke too much." (I.i.3)

"TOM: I'm going out to smoke. AMANDA: You smoke too much. A pack a day at fifteen cents a pack." (I.iV.43)

Tom also copes with his stress through drugs, specifically smoking. This is a picture of someone taking a "smoke break" to deal with their stress.]]> 2018-10-23 13:29:08 UTC https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/295927363 weirm4 https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/295928926 2018-10-23 13:31:49 UTC https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/295928926 weirm4 https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/295930671 "It's our turn now, to go to the South Sea Islands  to make a safari- to be exotic, far-off!- But I'm not patient. I don't want to wait till then. I'm tired of the movies and I am about to move." (II.Vii.76)

Tom wants to get out of town, and fast. He is sick of his monotonous job at the warehouse working with shoes, his mother won't let him write, and his family is keeping him stuck. Tom wants to become like his father and go on adventures, even if he has to leave his family to do it. This is a picture of a lady getting out of town on a bus. Tom reminds me of this lady because he wants to get out of town]]> 2018-10-23 13:34:25 UTC https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/295930671 weirm4 https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/295934323 2018-10-23 13:39:35 UTC https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/295934323 weirm4 https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/297205334 2018-10-25 22:24:29 UTC https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/297205334 weirm4 https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/297205974 The song I chose was "So Long, Farewell" from The Sound of Music.
I chose this song because Tom wants anything in the world other than to be working at a warehouse, doing the same thing over and over for fifty five years!

"TOM: Listen! You think I'm crazy about the warehouse? [He bonds fiercely toward her slight figure.] You think I'm in love with the Continental Shoemakers? You think I want to spend fifty-five years down there in that celotex interior! with - fluorescent - tubes! Look! I'd rather somebody picked up a crowbar and battered out my brains - than go back mornings!" (I.ii.20)]]> 2018-10-25 22:29:10 UTC https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/297205974 weirm4 https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/297207086 The worst part about Tom's job is that it is monotonous. Tom wants to be exotic, travel places, write books and adventures. Working in a warehouse is literally the last thing on Tom's list, and soon, it is not going to be a thing on his list because he is getting out.

“TOM: I'm planning to change. [He loans over the rail speaking with quiet exhilaration. The incandescent marquees and signs of the first-run movie houses light his face from across the alley. He looks like a voyager.] 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.” (I.Vi.60)]]> 2018-10-25 22:36:58 UTC https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/297207086 weirm4 https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/297207890 In the song, there is a line that says "I hate to go and leave this pretty site." I love this quote because it shows how this is a cruel irony in the song and the play. Tom's view of his family is NOT pretty. They all hate each other and Laura is just in the middle of it. Tom even calls his mother a witch.

“You'll go up, up on a broomstick, over Blue Mountain with seventeen gentlemen callers! You  ugly - babbling old - witch.” (I.ii.20)]]> 2018-10-25 22:42:42 UTC https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/297207890 weirm4 https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/297209843 "TOM: 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! TOM: I paid my dues this month, instead of the light bill"(I.Vi.61)

Tom's motivating desire to get away from his family and to someplace exotic finally took over as he paid for the Merchant Seamen membership rather than his family's light bill. The picture of the "End" key on a keyboard is symbolic of Tom's patience finally coming to an end.]]> 2018-10-25 22:54:43 UTC https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/297209843 weirm4 https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/297210667 2018-10-25 22:59:55 UTC https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/297210667 weirm4 https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/297211469 Tom's motivating desire is movement. He doesn't like being kept in the same spot for a long time. The picture below shows Tom's frustration with his situation and how much he wants to move

“TOM: All right, I 'will! The more you shout about my selfishness to me the quicker I'll go, and I won't go to the movies” (II.VIII.109)]]> 2018-10-25 23:05:01 UTC https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/297211469 weirm4 https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/297212044 2018-10-25 23:08:29 UTC https://padlet.com/weirm4/jbfwd0lzkhqt/wish/297212044