Amanda Wingfield - Laura and Tom’s mother. A proud, vivacious woman,
Amanda clings fervently to memories of a vanished, genteel past.
She is simultaneously admirable, charming, pitiable, and laughable.
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Laura Wingfield - Amanda’s daughter and Tom’s older sister. Laura
has a bad leg, on which she has to wear a brace, and walks with
a limp. Twenty-three years old and painfully shy, she has largely
withdrawn from the outside world and devotes herself to old records
and her collection of glass figurines.
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Tom Wingfield - Amanda’s
son and Laura’s younger brother. An aspiring poet, Tom works at a
shoe warehouse to support the family. He is frustrated by the numbing routine
of his job and escapes from it through movies, literature, and alcohol.
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Jim O’Connor - An
old acquaintance of Tom and Laura. Jim was a popular athlete in
high school and is now a shipping clerk at the shoe warehouse in
which Tom works. He is unwaveringly devoted to goals of professional achievement
and ideals of personal success.
Mr. Wingfield - Amanda’s
husband and Laura and Tom’s father. Mr. Wingfield was a handsome
man who worked for a telephone company. He abandoned his family
years before the action of the play and never appears onstage. His
picture, however, is prominently displayed in the Wingfields’ living
room.
