Abandoned by Her Husband, Amanda Wingfield Comforts Herself With Recollections of Her Earlier, More Gracious Life in Blue Mountain When She Was Pursued by 'Gentleman Callers'. Her Son Tom, a Poet With a Job in a Warehouse, Longs for Adventure and Escape From His Mother's Suffocating Embrace, While Laura, Her Shy Crippled Daughter, Has Her Glass Menagerie and Her Memories. Amanda is Desperate to Find Her Daughter a Husband, but When the Long-Awaited Gentleman Caller Does Arrive, Laura's Romantic Illusions Are Crushed.