The glass menagerie clusters on a small table ... sister and the desire to escape into the living world around him; and Laura, Amanda's daughter, a shy and delicately beautiful cripple who ...

The Glass Menagerie tells the story of the Wingfield ... Tom is a restless dreamer frustratingly tethered to home, while Laura is a shy, crippled girl who spends her time admiring her collection ...

especially Laura who is physically and mentally frail. Laura's life centres on her glass menagerie, a way to escape from the world.