Motherhood in The Glass Menagerie and A Raisin in the Sun...

Motherhood in The Glass Menagerie and A Raisin in the Sun I have read the two plays, The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams and A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, both of have a big impact on me. The two plays circle around the family values that convey the character of motherhood where mothers have to have a responsibility to raise, to provide their best and to sacrifice for their children. In these two plays, even expressing differently, mothers all show love to their children; they all want their children to have a happy life. Somehow, each mother treats their children different way, but they have only one purpose: to show love to their children. As I experience throughout the two plays: Amanda, Tom and Laura in The†¦show more content†¦Because she knows that Tom is not a strong man. In another word to say, Amanda is selfish and hypocrite. In return, Mrs. Young is a wonderful mother; she has suffered and sacrificed for her children. She always explains and lesson to her children instead of making them feel guilty. Th e Young family starts running into problems when Mrs. Young (Mama) receives about ten thousand dollars from life insurance of her husband. With a poor family likes Young, ten thousand dollars is really a dream, it is a huge amount of money that they could never get for all of their life. The children start fighting over the money; every one has his/her own reason to use that money. Mama must figures out how to keep the family in peace and together. Mama deeply believes in God and lives her life in cultural and ethnic pride. She usually talks about how her generation has won its freedom and proud to be able no longer be slaves. At the end of the play, even she failed to convince Walter not to put the money in the liquor store but she made her commitment, she has what she has fought for all of her life, her family now all together in love, happiness and forgiveness. Tom, a son of Amanda, a poet, with no backbone gets a job in a warehouse and does not have any plan for his career. He i s trapped by his mother and has suffered from that. However, Tom is curious about how he