![]() ![]() ![]() Tom agrees to help find a suitor and eventually brings over a friend from his work, a man named Jim O'Connor. She sets out to find her daughter a good husband Tom's mother, Amanda, is very old-fashioned and believes that her shy, physically handicapped daughter's only salvation lie in finding a rich husband. Tom works in a shoe factory in order to support his mother and sister both of whom are not physically well enough to work themselves. The story of the play is that of Tom Wingfield, an aspiring poet living in St. The play won many awards including the New York Drama Critics Circle Award in 1945. Williams' coined the term 'memory play' in honor of The Glass Menagerie in order to describe it's specific format which was supposed to be based on the main character and narrators story if it was being viewed through the slightly distorted glass of his own memory. ![]()
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