"Mother, when you're disappointed you get that awful suffering look on your face, like the picture of Jesus's mother in the museum!" Laura Pg. 1242
None of these characters have a particularly easy life. Their mother is forced to sell magazines and give up her old, happier life. Tom is forced to work at a job he hates all day long to support his family. But both of them could clean up their lives if they wanted. They both have dreams and aspirations to hold on to. However Laura is stuck at home because she is too scared and ashamed of who she is. Her whole life she's looked at herself as crippled and abnormal. She has no confidence in herself and can't even handle being in a typing business class. She wants so much to please her mother and help her brother, but no one really cares what Laura wants. When her glass animals break no one seems to even care even though she's clearly distraught. Laura just wants to be quiet and invisible. She is most content doing her own thing, but her mother refuses to allow that. Sure she only wants the best for her, but Laura just wants to be left alone. Her own family talks about her like she's a wounded, helpless animal. No one sees Laura as a kind misunderstood young woman, which is what she truly is. She's always given up what she wants to please her mother, but I wish she would have really been allowed to live her life the way she wanted without that guilt in the back of her mind.
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