Glass Menagerie There are many things in this play that one could write on. There seems to be a sense of false reality throughout the whole play. Their lives are simple and to the point, and have no where to go. It also seems that the family is cluttered in their small house with no where to go. Tom's only outlet is when he says he is going to the movies, but really goes to the bar and comes home drunk almost every night. he is so confined in his house that he has to get out to get away from his scatterbrained mother who is very controlling. I believe the one thing in the play I am most intigued by is that Laura is much like her unico