TY - BOOK AU - Williams,Tennessee TI - The glass menagerie T2 - New Directions paperbook SN - 0329224441 AV - PS3545.I5365 G5 1999 U1 - 812/.54 22 PY - 1999///, ©1945 CY - New York PB - New Directions KW - Families KW - Missouri KW - Saint Louis KW - Drama KW - Young men KW - Family life KW - Saint Louis (Mo.) N1 - P.B; P.B; Wilson's Senior High School; Adult; Follett Library Resources; Adult N2 - Amanda, a faded southern belle, abandoned wife, and dominating mother, hopes to match her daughter Laura with an eligible "gentleman caller" while her son Tom supports the family. Laura, lame and painfully shy, evades her mother's schemes and reality by retreating to the make-believe world of her glass animal collection. Tom eventually leaves home to become a writer but is forever haunted by the memory of Laura ER -