The
three examples I have picked involve Amanda, Tom, and Jim respectively. Note: this movie
adaptation follows the original play very closely and I will give the scenes from the play in
which these examples occur.
The first example is from the family dinner-time
scene at the start (scene 1 in the play) where Amanda is reminiscing about her gilded youth in
Blue Mountain when she was a Southern Belle, living the gracious life of an aristocrat with lots
of servants and, even more, no end of €˜gentleman callers. She remembers one time in particular
when no fewer than seventeen callers came on a Sunday afternoon. In fact she is continually
remembering her past, she clings to the memory of those past days, because her present life is
so different. She has been abandoned by her husband €“ who as a young man swept her completely
off her feet with his charm, but who turned out to be a drinker and wastrel. She has been left
living in a rundown apartment with very little money, with a...
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