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The Glass Menagerie 2. Content ■As for Laura’s tragedy, the causes of it are both social and personal. Specially speaking, they are: the history and social factor, the family factor and the personal causes. In the next part, I will analyze these factors one by one and in the last part I will draw the conclusion. 3Main part—the causes of Laura’s miserable life 3.1 The social factor ■ There is no deny that women are always treated as inferior to men and they also have been suffering all along. It seems a custom and attitude that women are ‘weak’. Deprived of the right to making their own living, women used to play the traditional role of fragile type. 3.1 The social factor ■As for Laura, she is a traditional girl which history put onto her. She is presented as suffering, passive one by history factor. She is defective both physically and mentally. Because of these she is more rely on others’ help. Eg, she is expecting to get brotherly love and financial support from her brother. She also wants love from Jim, under whose help she becomes more or less confident. She lives in the age of Depression; the decline in economy makes people more self-centered. She cannot get enough support from the society. The grim society not only threatens her living but also destroys her inner world which is as fragile as a glass. 3.2The family factor ■In her childhood, her father abandons the family. To the family, this is a disaster; as we can see from the Tom’s description about the bad living condition of the family. she has to live without the love from her father. 3.2.The family factor ■As for her mother Amanda, she lives in the illusion of the past. Eg. in sence1,when she mentions the entertainment of the callers in Blue Mountain, she even know clearly about the very details of the caller. She is so lost in the past that she can not face the harsh reality. Later in the play, she tells Jim: well，in the south, we had so many servants…I wasn’t prepared for what the futur