"Try and you will SUCCEED! Why, you - you're just full of natural endowments! Both of my children - they're unusual children! Don't you think I know it? I'm so - proud! Happy and - feel I've - so much to be thankful for but- Promise me one thing, son!" Amanda pg. 1251
When reading this I can't help but have mixed emotions about Amanda's character. A part of her reminds me of my own mother. Her constant nagging is downright annoying at times and sometimes I can't believe the things she says to her children. However, reading this play makes it more apparent that she really has good intentions. Amanda spends most of her time living in her old glory days. Now she has to spend her time calling people up and pestering them about magazine subscriptions. She longs to be that pretty, successful woman she used to be, but now she is trying to live through her daughter. She is trying to make her daughter a popular outgoing woman when all laura wants is to be invisible and happy. Though it seems like Amanda is being selfish, in reality she truly believes that is what will make Laura happy. Is it kind of annoying at times? absolutely. But does she have good intentions? sure enough.
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