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This was my first read of 2016 and another drama I've read out of class. I liked this one better, bit I cannot quite put my finger on the reason. The story is a simple yet complex one.
The play is a memory play and is narrated by our young narrator Tom Wingfield who lives with his shy, crippled older sister and mother. The play mainly revolves around the characters' dreams, aspirations worlds that's created for themselves.
Tom works in a shoe warehouse to support his family but wants to be a poet while his mother wants him to advance in his job and look for a nice gentleman top marry her daughter off with. While Tom spends the whole time grumbling and complaining about life and going to the movies to seek for adventures he doesn't get in his own life, his mother only scolds him about his behaviour. His sister Laura is a beautiful but shy girl who hides behind her collection of glass animals who are as fragile as her. Her shyness and anxiety develops from her slight cripple that she thinks to be of a greater importance and hindrance. Laura's shy nature makes her mother more concerned about her and in the hopes of getting gentlemen callers for her daughter, she gets delusional. But the gentleman caller finally arrives in the form of Jim, Laura's childhood crush and he makes Laura believe in herself and is the only person who understands her, but as ruined luck would have it, he's already engaged and so cannot romance with her.
The ever present memory of their father who abandoned his family is what compels Tom to believe that he too is destined to leave his family behind and this goes on to do just that.
In the end, Tom does feel guilty for Laura, but he doesn't clear things up.
The story was a really nice, raw and touching one and should be read for the true portrayal of humans around us or in our lives. The writing was very simple and yet beautifully captivating and I recommend this to all readers.