Gregory Takács Hour 3. 8/24/2000
The exposition is the beginning of the story, where the author introduces the main characters, the setting, and the mood. It begins from the first word of the story, and ends, where the complication begins.
The author introduces us the Wingfield apartment, which is in the rear of the building and enters by a fire escape. We can feel that the family is not very rich, and they are trapped in this situation. They are the lower- middle class of the population, so they cannot afford to own a house. We can feel the desperation.
The mood of the scene is unrealistic and sentimental because it is a memory. At the beginning of the story, Tom tells to the audience, that he will tell a story, what we will not believe. The story is in the past - the author uses the method of flashback to introduce the play.
The play begins with Tom's speech. Tom is the narrator of the play, and also one of the characters. At the beginning of the story, we can feel that Tom is impatient with his mother, because she gives instructions to him. He does not feel very well in this trapped situation, and we can feel that he does not like living with his mother and sister, but he cannot do anything else, he has to stay with them. He doesn't like his mothers story about her gentleman callers, because he heard it so many times that he is fed up with it, he says: " I know what's coming…" Tom is also responsible for the money - he is the only, who can earn in the family. He works in a warehouse, and that's not the kind of live, what he really wants to live.
Tom is the opposite of his sister Laura, who is very shy and quiet girl. She does not want to say anything bad to her mother. She is a little bit handicapped. She never had a gentleman caller, and Amanda is worried about that. Her mother thinks that she attends a college, but his is not true, and this is the point where the real conflict starts.
I think the main character of the play is Amanda - the mother. She appears in every scene. She tries to control her children, and that is what Tom does not like, but it seems that he never told this to Amanda. Amanda always wants the best for her children, but it seems that sometimes she goes on their nerves.
The narrator tells to the audience, that there are other two characters in the play:
A gentleman caller, who appears only at the end of the story and he is the most realistic character, and the "father" who never appears, he exists only as a "picture on the wall."
The exposition is the beginning of the story, where the author introduces the main characters, the setting, and the mood. It begins from the first word of the story, and ends, where the complication begins.
The author introduces us the Wingfield apartment, which is in the rear of the building and enters by a fire escape. We can feel that the family is not very rich, and they are trapped in this situation. They are the lower- middle class of the population, so they cannot afford to own a house. We can feel the desperation.
The mood of the scene is unrealistic and sentimental because it is a memory. At the beginning of the story, Tom tells to the audience, that he will tell a story, what we will not believe. The story is in the past - the author uses the method of flashback to introduce the play.
The play begins with Tom's speech. Tom is the narrator of the play, and also one of the characters. At the beginning of the story, we can feel that Tom is impatient with his mother, because she gives instructions to him. He does not feel very well in this trapped situation, and we can feel that he does not like living with his mother and sister, but he cannot do anything else, he has to stay with them. He doesn't like his mothers story about her gentleman callers, because he heard it so many times that he is fed up with it, he says: " I know what's coming…" Tom is also responsible for the money - he is the only, who can earn in the family. He works in a warehouse, and that's not the kind of live, what he really wants to live.
Tom is the opposite of his sister Laura, who is very shy and quiet girl. She does not want to say anything bad to her mother. She is a little bit handicapped. She never had a gentleman caller, and Amanda is worried about that. Her mother thinks that she attends a college, but his is not true, and this is the point where the real conflict starts.
I think the main character of the play is Amanda - the mother. She appears in every scene. She tries to control her children, and that is what Tom does not like, but it seems that he never told this to Amanda. Amanda always wants the best for her children, but it seems that sometimes she goes on their nerves.
The narrator tells to the audience, that there are other two characters in the play:
A gentleman caller, who appears only at the end of the story and he is the most realistic character, and the "father" who never appears, he exists only as a "picture on the wall."
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