Okay, so we've read and watched the glass menagerie. However, even thought the story is the easiest one to understand out of everything we've read so far, the ending is completely vague and unfinished. So Tom leaves, and returns and they're gone. Then what? The audience is left hanging in this play. This is how I think it should have ended. I believe that Tom should leave, squander all of his savings and have to come crawling back to his annoying mother Amanda like the prodigal son. Amanda doesn't hesitate in bombarding him with speeches involving "I told you so". Tom then scans the house looking for Laura, who is nowhere to be found. Jim and his fiancé didn't work out, and he and Laura had started a life together. Meanwhile, Tom stays, nurturing his now dying, aging mother, whose final words are "Thank, you Tom. Although it never seemed like it, but I've never stopped being proud of you…" She finally dies and Tom is free to do whatever he pleases, learning from his past mistakes and moving forward with the reassurance that his mother didn't die resenting him for leaving. The End. Now, I think that's an ending that would leave an audience more satisfied than the ambiguous, unresolved ending. That, my friends, is how you end a play.
Cut, scene, that's a wrap, and all that jazz.
yours truly,
Destinee, the Substitute Playwright
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