"Overcome selfishness! Self, self, self is all that you ever think of!" Scene 5
Amanda is perhaps one of the most whacked out characters I have ever had the displeasure of seeing in our plays. Tom and Amanda had constant arguments throughout the play, and I do not blame him. She is obsessed with the past. It seems that at least once in every scene she talks about her past, about her glory days as a young girl in the south. She has yet to move on to the present. What is more than her obsession with the past is her obsession with herself. Although she loves her children, she forgets her place. When Jim comes over for dinner, she talks and talks and talks and ends up being more annoying that gracious and welcoming. Also, she dresses up nicer than she should just for a boy to come over. What is the purpose of this? I feel as though she is trying to live through Laura's courting of a boy, since her days are over and gone.
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