Plot Shape of Each Character

Laura

Laura's journey looks like water or ocean, which is full of the small curves.  It is quiet, and the curve line can expand almost infinitely.  The reason that I choose curve line for Laura is that she covers her thoughts up so well.  Since in the high school, she liked Jim, but she never let Jim knows.  Everything is deep under the water.  When the night comes, when people stand by the ocean, they cannot see anything clearly, but they can hear the sound of crashing waves clearly.  The waves are like people murmuring and telling their sorrow.  Laura is this kind of person, who is quiet in the daytime, but pour out her heart at night.  Glass menagerie is Laura's night that she can tell her story to the menagerie. 

TOM

  Tom's journey is not as quiet as Laura's.  He desires to run out of the valley and run away home.  He is easy to get angry.  Because he thinks his mother does not believe and support his dream, he always fights with his mother.  His journey and his temper are like a fire that is full of energy and direction.  Because the shape or arrow of fire is clear, which is toward the sky, it is like Tom's journey.  He has the temper, so he argues with his mother;  he has a dream, so he yearns to go out of the valley without any doubt.  What he did is what he wants to do, which is like the shape of fire, clear and unidirectional.

Amanda

I will draw Amanda's journey as a stair down to the place that we can not see.  Amanda had a good childhood.  Her family is not poor and she used to has beauty and honor.  However, after his husband runs away, Amanda's life is staying in the past.  She wants to reach the old prosperity, but all she did is let her memory go back.  I believe chasing past is not a good choice because it will lead you to a more vague illusion and give you a more deserted heart.  In the end, she is alone without her husband, her daughter and her son staying with her.  Amanda is literally alone, and it is what the past gives to her.