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This 6 page paper compares Laura in The Glass Menagerie with Mabel in The Horse Dealer’s Daughter. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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others in their lives. But deeper examination reveals that such an impression is only momentary and they are very different. This paper explores the psychological make-up of each character and
contrasts the two young women. Discussion The similarities between the two are superficial, based largely on the first impression an audience or reader has of the characters. Laura is
entirely self-effacing and desperately eager to please; when Mabel is described, we read: "The girl was alone ... She did not share the same life as her brothers" (Lawrence). The
two are thus joined by a similar bond of isolation and loneliness. But that is where the similarities end. Lets take Laura first. As Marquiss notes, despite the fact that
Tom narrates the play and Amanda is a vibrant and over-the-top character (easily made into a caricature if the performer isnt careful), Laura is really the central character. This is
her story, told through the device of the "memory play," which selectively highlights some events and glosses over others. Here, Tom is the one remembering, and what concerns him most
is his sister. Laura wears a brace on her leg, which may or may not be physically there in the production; the
idea that she has a handicap, according to Williams, need only be suggested. The problem is that Laura is self-conscious about her handicap, almost to the point of mental instability.
Every act, every though, every emotion she experiences is filtered through her awareness of her shortcomings. She is pathologically shy, literally paralyzed with fear when confronted with an unfamiliar situation.
Her mother, afraid she will be an "old maid," the worst possible fate, sends the hapless girl to business school. But she is so terrified at a typing test that
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