The Glass Menagerie
to amanda what do the 17 gentlemen callers represent?
scene 1
scene 1
Amanda tells a story she has often told before, about one day in her youth when she received seventeen gentleman callers in a single afternoon. She names them, tells what they went on to do with their lives, and reminds her children miserably that she, who had her pick, chose their father. They represent what could have been.
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