Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines A Life - Plot & Excerpts
Nixon Mrs. Nixon Reads The Glass Menagerie The four characters of Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie are a mother, her daughter, her son, and a “gentleman caller.” In his notes describing them, Williams puts forth some of their inherent contradictions. Amanda, the mother, has “endurance and a kind of heroism, and though her foolishness makes her unwittingly cruel at times, there is tenderness in her slight person.” Her daughter, afflicted with a bad leg, “is like a piece of her own glass collection, too exquisitely fragile to move from the shelf.” Both female characters, damaged, live in their own realities. Tom, Amanda’s son, who narrates, also embodies contradictions: he is a poet who works in a warehouse. Imagine being Jim O’Connor, invited to dinner: the daughter went to high school with Jim and has always secretly loved him; the mother, pining for the past and eager for any suitor; Tom, who yearns for independence, escapes these loonies any time he can and goes to “the movies.”
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