Throughout the entire Glass Menagerie by Tennesee Williams, the presence of the father is known. Although he has been gone for sixteen years, he impacts the family everyday. The fact that a picture of Mr. Wingfield remains hung on the wall symbolizes the family's revolvance on him. Tom is impacted the most on his father's departure. He feels betrayal and awe in his father. His father left them and left the duty of caring for the family on Tom's shoulder's; however, Tom looks up to his father. Tom adores the fact that his father went after his dream of seeing the world; maybe even getting away from his mother.
What Mr.Wingfield did to his family years before was reinacted through Tom. We see Tom progressively going towards this throughout the entire novel. However, the reader sees this in full action when Tom says to Jim, "I paid my dues this month, instead of the light bill...I won't be here" (Williams, 1269). Tom was planning on leaving his family and had taken the measures in doing so. In the end, he had accomplished his dream of getting away. "I didn't go to the moon, I went much further" (Williams, 1288).
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