Abandoned by her husband and left penniless, Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, lived with her in a small apartment in a local alley of the city's lower middle class two adult children Tom and Laura. This was a far cry from Amanda's youth during the Victorian era in Blue Mountain to her current situation of poverty and uncertainty. Being a single mother, Amanda was concerned about her family's financial security along with concerns about her daughter's lack of marriage prospects; because of this, her need to enrich her life by shaping that of her children led to illusions that overwhelmed reality which also brought out destructive illusions within her, her son Tom, and her daughter Laura. Blessed with beauty, charm and elegance, Amanda recalled living an affluent life in Blue Mountain, where she was courted by several potential suitors, as well as spending many nights attending balls and galas. The world he imagined was one of formality and ways in which a person's high expectations were part of being a socialite. Amanda explains: “My interlocutors were gentlemen, all of them! Among my visitors were some of the Mississippi Delta's most prominent young planters—planters and planters' sons! (1617) As time passed, Amanda married a man who did not meet the expectations of sophistication and monetary abundance she had visualized; therefore, shattering the lifestyle she imagined for herself and her children. Amanda's demanding and idealistic views along with stories of past suitors were too much for her husband to bear, so he eventually abandoned her and their children for another woman with whom he was in a long-distance relationship. Poverty-stricken, Amanda and her family relied heavily on ... middle of paper ... damaging that held back her son's self-confidence and diminished any dreams of a normal life for her daughter. Amanda confessed: “Why can't you and your brother be normal people? Fantastic quirk and behavior!” (1639) Amanda's delusion affected the family and herself above all because she did not want to appreciate the intelligent, beautiful and kind children she had around her, because she was too blinded by paranoia and the belief that nothing and no one could ever exist. pretty good. The result of his actions pushed his son Tom to finally leave home to join the merchant navy and his daughter to seek refuge in her fantasy world with no hope of a normal life. Amanda proclaims, "My devotion has made me a witch and therefore I make myself hateful to my children." (1627) Amanda was a mother trapped in the perception of a reality that was only an illusion.