The mother's expectations "The Glass Menagerie," a play by Tennessee Williams, gives us a quick picture into the lives of three completely different humans beings. The mother Amanda Wingfield, is a women who is completely in love with her two children. her love although sometimes comes across in a very mean and dominant manner "unwittingly cruel at times" (1898), but she is always present for her children. Laura, her oldest out of two children, is handicapped not only by her "defect" (1898), but by a big case of being shy. Amanda's youngest Tom a poet and a adventurer, is forced into the role of being the ma