Act2Glassmenagerie

Scene II -
The scene opens with a blue rose being lighted upon the stage. Laura is then seen playing with her glass menagerie until she hears Amanda coming up the steps outside. Laura immediately puts away the ornaments. Amanda tells Laura that she founds out that Laura had been skipping out on her college classes; and in doing so, has given up on her possible future career in business. Amanda then tells Laura that her only hope in having a satisfying lifestyle would be to get married. She then begins to ask Laura if she likes anyone or has feelings for anyone. Laura then describes a guy she met in high school named Jim. He gave her a nickname back in high school, "Blue Roses" because he had misheard her illness called Pleurosis; she liked that name. We then learn that Laura is crippled, with one leg being shorter than the other, and that she has no confidence in her ability to find a suitor. The scene then ends with Amanda telling Laura that she needs to learn how to charm men.

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