The Glass Menagerie
The Glass MenagerieTennessee Williams
Characters in The Glass Menagerie
4 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Tom Wingfield
The narrator. A would-be poet stuck in a shoe warehouse, supporting his mother and sister and escaping nightly to the movies; he tells the play as his own memory.
Supporting characters
Amanda Wingfield
Tom and Laura's mother, a faded Southern belle abandoned by her husband, who presses her children toward the lives she once imagined for them.
Laura Wingfield
Tom's older sister, left with a limp and a paralysing shyness, who has withdrawn from business college into her collection of small glass animals.
Jim O'Connor
The gentleman caller. Tom's co-worker at the warehouse and a high-school star Laura once adored from a distance.