Trauma Caused by the Southern Belle Values on Two Main Female Characters in The Glass Menagerie

To some extent, there are some tragic characteristics on two main female characters, Amanda Wingfield and Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie and these tragic characteristics are mainly induced by the profound influence of the Southern Belle Values. These values severely limited Amanda and Laura’s development and made them suffer from persistent trauma. Influenced by these values, Amanda tended to be submissive to her husband and eventually her husband abandoned the whole family, which made Amanda could not be a decent Southern Belle and left a terrible trauma to her. Laura was inculcated with Southern Belle Values when she was a child, so she also desired to be an ideal Southern Belle, but the physical and psychological deficiencies made it impossible, which made Laura quite disappointed and brought her severe trauma.

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