At the beginning of this play the narrator points out repeatedly that this is a memory play so I knew it would be different than anything else I've ever read. Before I started reading this play I didn't know what the word Menagerie meant so I looked it up..."a collection of wild or unusual animals," so I guess this has to do with a glass collection of animals?
The beginning is really slow. Williams spends so much time setting up the story analyzing every specific detail down to the lighting and music that you just want to get on with the story. When Tom first introduces his mother Amanda at dinner, I knew she was a crazy drama queen still living in the past. She obsesses about all the gentleman callers she had one Sunday afternoon in Blue Mountain and doesn't let her kids forget it. She's really weird too, for example, when she describes in detail how Tom should eat his food and goes on explaining the whole digestion process.
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