At the end of scene 4, Amanda pleads with Tom to

join the Merchant Marines to help better support the family.


find a suitable co-worker to become Laura's "gentleman caller."


stop reading D.H. Lawrence's novels.


write a letter to his father explaining their predicament.

Amanda believes that Tom's craze for adventure can be found

in Tom's books


at the movies


in his career


through travel

In scene 4, when Laura leaves to go get butter

she stumbles on the fire escape, her fall symbolizing her inability to cope with the world outside the tiny apartment


she is accosted by a mugger, the attack symbolizing her vulnerability to predatory men


she forgets the way home, indicating that she is experiencing the first symptoms of insanity


she has a horrible nervous breakdown, showing how incapable she is of coping with other people

The motif of Reality vs. Illusion/Escape can attach itself to all of the following events except:

Tom's incessant need to go to the movies.


Laura's reoccurring nightmares about her typing instructor.


The memories Amanda shares about her seventeen "gentleman callers."


Laura's focus on her collection of glass animals and worn out records.