Williams actually introduces the character of Laura in The Glass Menagerie as:
Laura is a shy young woman whose disability has left her anxious and nervous.
<h3>About The Glass Menagerie.</h3>
"The Glass Menagerie" is known to be a play by Tennessee Williams. The play actually spoke about the author, his mother and his fragile sister.
In The Glass Menagerie, Laura is actually presented to be extremely shy. She is also nervous that attending business school makes her violently sick. She actually possesses glass menagerie.
Laura is known to have a slight physical defect in her limp which she has magnified. This had negative impact in her nature.
Ashima is a character from the novel ''The Namesake'' and she experienced changes that were defining her life trough the story. The novel is following her perspective between thirty-two years elapse where the readers can follow her growing from a young girl and mother to a great personality woman. In the beginning, she was devastated because of her father's death and she was feeling like she cannot raise her children, Gogol and Sonia. She wanted to give them more but she couldn't.
Her path was leading her to the independence that she needed even though her path was difficult and specific because <u>she experiences the death of her father and her husband and she also experiences separation of her family because they were separated in four different countries at one time</u>. At the end of the novel, she is realizing the importance of life in America for her and her family since she became a resident of the US and a resident of Calcutta.
