Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, more gracious life in Blue Mountain when she was pursued by \'gentleman callers\'.
Amanda is desperate to find her daughter a husband, but when the long-awaited gentleman caller does arrive, Laura\'s romant.
Her son Tom, a poet with a job in a warehouse, longs for adventure and escape from his mother\'s suffocating embrace, while Laura, her shy crippled daughter, has her Glass menagerie and her memories.
Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, more gracious life in Blue Mountain when she was pursued by \'gentleman callers\'