In Tenessee Williams' 'The Glass Menagerie', Amanda says to Tom, 'Go to the moon you selfish dreamer' (pg 96). How far do you agree with this statement?

This accusation of Amanda is really insulting Tom in two ways - firstly as being self - centred and secondly of being a dreamer. We understand that this is meant to hurt Tom by the fact that Amanda is truly angry and the statement is powered by a sense of nastiness and hurtful feelings towards Tom. From the book 'Through the Glass Menagerie', there is the suggestion that Tom is really a dreamer. That he …

…to find those dreams and make them a reality - to little success. He is completely selfless in his retrospective opinion on Laura and Amanda and does not dream of a better day, he regrets that's his better day is so far away from Laura. His past is a haunting from him that taints his dreams and fantasies, and as he implies he regrets leaving Laura, but 'time is the greatest distance between two people'.