from jianhong and mika

scene 7 (pg 52-76)

the scene starts off by showing Laura on the sofa lying down when the lights go out and Amanda starts to tell a joke to Jim about where Moses was when the lights when out . Amanda asks Jim to check the fuse box and Amanda brought up the topic of Benjamin Franklin , and thats when Amanda finds out that Tom did not pay the bill and when Jim says that candlelight is his favourite kind of light Amanda says that he is romantic.

Amanda gives Jim a candelabrum and asks him to gives Laura a little wine and tells Tom to get his apron on.

Tom ask Laura to drink the wine the Amanda wanted Jim to give Laura.Jim asks Laura to sit on the floor and gets her to sit closer to him.They starts talking about The Wrigley Building and the Century of Progress and how the future will be like in America.Then Laura mentions about Jim having a beautiful voice when he sang at high school and Jim remembered that he called her Blue Roses because she was ill with pleurosis and it sounded like blue roses before and did not know that she was Tom's sister at high school and they start to talk about their past in high school that Laura was shy and that Jim wrote an operetta that Laura complimented about the beautiful song Jim sang and always wanted Jim to autograph her programme but never had the chance to do so and Jim gave her his autograph which confidence that his signature will rise in value someday. Jim tells Laura that he and Emily was never together and that it was all propaganda and asks Laura what she has been doing in the past six years.Laura tells him that she took a business course at business college and that she dropped out and now she takes cares of her glass collection. Jim tells Laura that she low-rates herself and that he understands it too because he had it too but not as worse as Laura's , until he took up public speaking, developing his voice learning that he had and aptitude for science. He tells Laura that he has a friend that tells him ,he can analyse people better than doctors and judge Laura's trouble , a lack of amount of faith in herself . He tells Laura that he is interested in electro-dynamics and that he took a course in radio engineering at night schooland studying public speaking. Laura tells Jim that her intrest is in glass and she shows him a unicorn that is her favourite one and she places them on a shelf with other horses that do not have horns like the unicorn and she places it on different places from time to time to giv it a change of scenery .

The Wrigley Building

Jim hears some music and ask Laura to dance Waltz with him but Laura does no know how to dance so Tom teaches her the steps and slowly Laura gets better and better and as they dance, they accidently knocks on to the table and the glass unicorn falls and breaks its horns off but Laura sees it as a blessing in disguise so that the unicorn can now fit in with the other horses.

Jim starts sweet talking Laura by complimenting her in a genuine tone and tells her that she was pretty wishing that she was his sister so that he can teach her to have confidence in herself. He starts telling her that blue roses was right for her because she was pretty and told Laura that he was saying it sincerly and tells her that someone should ought to kiss her and he slips his hand on to her shoulder and kisses her on the lips ,dazing Laura. He asks laura if she wants a mint but Laura does'nt seem to respond but she grows brighter. He tells her that if she was his sister , he would do the same thing as Tom, bringing in gentleman callers for her to meet but Tom was wrong to bring him in because he is already engaged with another girl , shocking Laura but she stills gives him her unicorn as a souvenir. Amanda rushes into the room with a pitcher of fruit punch for Jim and Laura to drink. She accidently spills the punch on herself and tells Jim that how outdone she was with Tom for keeping Jim to himself for so long and that she is going to have fun with Jim in the future . Jim tells her that he has got to be going soon and that he wont be coming back beacause of both work and Betty. Amanda was shocked to hear that Jim was engaged and Jim goes off to fetch Betty at the depot. Amanda told Tom that he pulled a good joke on them but Tom has no idea Jim was getting married even though he was his best friend at the warehouse. Tom argues with Amanda and he was so furious that he left home and in the end he descends down the fire-escape for the last time and tells Laura to blow out the candle to show that he wont be back to lit the candles again.

Legends :Suspension of a public service

What have you done since high school?

Love!

Things have a bad way of turning out so badly

And so good-bye

Image: Gentleman caller waving good-bye-gaily

Music:Glass Menagerie(not avaliable)