help her to build up her confidence about herself a little bit. Whenthe horn breaks off of the unicorn while Jim and Laura are dancing, Laura picks it upand says Its just like all the others now. Jim explains that just because a thing orperson looks a little different that it doesnt mean that every one actually sees it. Laura ends up giving the glass unicorn to Jim. Laura is feeling more confident aboutherself, because before the unicorn was her most valued piece of glass because it wasdifferent from all the others, and in this way reminded her of herself. Jim tells Amanda and Laura that he is engaged to be married. Amanda seemsto be more upset about the news of the engagement than Laura. She blames Tom forsetting up a sick joke. Amanda calls Tom a selfish traitor, as always, Tom gets theblame for everything from his mother. Tom finally walks down the fire escape for thelast time, to follow in his fathers footsteps.Each character in this play uses something to ease the pains of their lives. Amanda uses her children, or lives her life through them. Amanda maybe wanted thegentleman caller more for herself more than for Laura. As she realizes that herhusband had left her long ago and needed to have a man in her life to fill an emptygap.Tom uses the movies for his escape from his mother and the dreaded life hismother puts him through all the time. Amanda always blamed Tom for everything that seemed to go wrong. Amanda wanted Tom to feel guilty for having his owndreams of his own life. Tom was made to feel responsible for Laura and was toldthat he couldnt leave until his sister had found a man and had a secure life of herown. Laura, with her glass collection , and her phonograph lived in a world of herown. She would hold and look through the glass unicorn rather than face the realworld, she lived in a world of fantasy. Amandas husband, only just an image on thewall in the background evidently did escape into the world to be who...
