1) The glass menagerie in the play mostly represents Laura, because she lives in an imaginary world and her glass animals keeps her active.
2) Tom is confined to the horrors of his life in the family and Laura has a private world that she claims not to share in reality and Amanda, a pampered woman with unrealistic dreams. These conflicts eventually affect the lives of each characters in concluding that the cannot accept the reality that has been given to them. They purposely dodge their problem into a solution that seems to have created another problem.
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To bend you change the shape but when you break you split it in half or tear it. For example you can bend foil or a gum wrapper and its shape changes, but you can rip or tear the foil or gum wrapper breaking it.
What should the readers pay attention to is how the characters say, behave and feel in every line or how they were able to react in each scene or part. This will allow them to notice how the characters evolve or how they were able to develop in each scenario that is happening on the character's life as the story goes. For this is essential in reading a story or a book.
can you specify what book/play you're talking about me