"Why I remember one Sunday afternoon Blue Mountain-"
"I know whats coming"
"Yes. But let her tell it."
"Again?" (1238)
Amanda had many gentalman callers when she was young, and she picked the wrong one. Now she is deluding herself into thinking that she is not living in a small tenement with her adult, unmarried children by recounting frequently stories of her various gentleman callers. When this subject is first introduced at the breakfast table in scene 2, Tom doesn't want to hear it, but laura allows it, partly because she might be trying to fantasies about what it would be like to have that many gentalman callers pining over her. More so, she is disconnected to reality because of her glass collection. When she was talking to Jim about her relationship with them, it sounded humorous and almost as though she was joking, but considering how much time she spends with her collection, it would not be outside the cone of meaning to say that she did talk to her collection, like a child with an imaginary friend. She did not have any real friends, so she substituted human contact for a life with her glass figures.
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