The Glass Menagerie has many important themes which can be identified throughout the play. The play is a memory play in which Tom gives the readers a flashback on his memories and about his past life. The play is taken place around the 1940s; Tom explains to the reader his memory. The play mainly focuses on the character Tom, Laura who is Tom's sister and their mother. Tom shows the reader that his father abandoned his family many years ago. His mother is filled with dreams and hopes for her daughter to get gentleman callers just like her during her time of marriage. The family members had issues with each other in different ways, where the conflicts of the characters dwell. One of the most important themes that is shown and seen by the reader is abandonment. Abandonment always have an impact on the person who was abandoned, it allows them to change themselves in certain behavior. For example, the way they would see this in their perspective might change from others or what their perspective was before. This is seen through the mother, when she found out her husband has abandoned his family because he wanted to do things that kept him happy. In scene six of the play, the mother states "A telephone man who ”fell in love with long-distance! Now he travels and I don't even know where! (Tennessee,4). She was talking about her husband who left them in order to keep his dreams alive. This had a big impact of the mother because she started to have fear about situations where she is helpless. It impacted to the way she started to think because her perspective of men and the world was changed, when she had to live without a man in the house to support the family. Another character in whom the reader can see abandonment as a big theme is Tom. Tom had his dreams and goals for the future of his life, which was never approved by his mother. His mother always used to say what he should and should not do, in the sense that she is just trying