LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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she got so nervous she was sick
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she passed the entire class on the first day
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she couldn’t afford to keep going
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she met a boy she liked and dropped out
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Detailed explanation-1: -Notice that a large part of Laura’s nervousness and sickness in this scene is brought about by Amanda’s constant fretting and bothering. Laura even says to her: “Mother, you’ve made me so nervous.” Again this shows Amanda’s inability to understand her children.
Detailed explanation-2: -And in a welcome departure from most Tennessee Williams plays, there’s a happy ending: Laura-left alone at the end of The Glass Menagerie-runs off with the gentleman caller at the close of The Pretty Trap.
Detailed explanation-3: -Her nickname, “Blue Roses, ” derives from Jim’s mishearing of “pleurosis, ” the disease that left her crippled. Both Tom and Jim see Laura as like a blue rose, exotic and frail in her rarity. Yet despite her fragility, Laura does not willfully delude herself about the nature of her reality.
Detailed explanation-4: -Answer and Explanation: Laura shows signs of acute social anxiety and symptoms of a psychotic disorder. She confesses she doesn’t hear her glass figurines arguing.