The Glass Menagerie Movie Review

I felt like the movie that we watched of the Glass Menagerie was very accurate to the book. All of the lines were the same and the same actions were happening that I visualized while reading the book. One of the major differences that was from the movie to the book is the beggining of the movie, Tom had no monologue at the begining. Instead it was just him walking up the alley towards the house. In the begining of the book there was an opening monologue explaining things like the setting of the stage and how Tom would be playing the narrator and himself in the play. One of the things that I noticed the director added was when he would have Amanda's voice echoing into the scene again to show that the story was resuming. This would happen every time after we saw Tom sitting on the steps smoking and thinking about his memories. I found that every interesting and it added an extra effect of showing that it was a memory. While watching the movie, Amanda was even more annoying than I had imagined. She just kept on talking and talking until Tom would yell at her and then she would get mad at him for yelling at her. That is called provoking. Also when I was reading the book, I did not understand that Laura and Amanda both cried when Laura admitted to not going to her type writing class. That was something I missed while I was reading the book. When Amanda finds out that they will have a gentleman caller, she gets very excited. She had everything planned to be ready for Jim. When Jim got to their house, Amanda was very excited and kept on talking to Jim and did not allow him to make a full sentence for a while until Tom stopped her. When Jim talks to Laira he really changes her. She falls in love with Jim again after they dance. Instead of giving the horn to Jim in the book, Laura gives Jim the whole horse. Laura calls it a souvenir. This is important because souvenir in French means memory so it is not only something that Jim will keep as an item, but it will also remind him of the time that he danced with Laura when he was invited over to dinner.  Amanda becomes very upset when she finds out that Jim has a girlfriend named Betty. Amanda and Tom have their last blowout and Tom leaves. In the end they show Laura blowing out the candles that were lit while Tom says goodbye.