At dinner she is physically sick and has to be excused. And it is the Jim that she knew from high school. Amanda will have nothing to do with such foolishness, and even though Laura is sick when the gentleman caller arrives, Amanda forces her to open the door. She tells her mother that she might not be able to come for dinner if it is the same one. When she mentions the name of the gentleman caller, Laura realizes that it is possibly the same Jim on whom she had a crush in high school. On the next night, Amanda oversees Laura's dress and adds some "gay deceivers" to the dress to make Laura more attractive. Amanda immediately begins to make rather elaborate plans for the gentleman caller. A few days later, Tom tells Amanda that he has invited a young man named Jim O'Connor home for dinner. They have an argument, and the next morning after Tom apologizes, Amanda asks him to find some nice gentleman caller for Laura and to bring him home for dinner. When Tom goes out to the movies that night, Amanda accuses him of doing something else rather than going to the movies every night. Amanda decides that they must have a gentleman caller for Laura, and Laura tells her that she has liked only one boy in her whole life, a high school boy named Jim. Amanda is shocked and wonders what they will do with their lives since Laura refuses to try to help and spends all her time playing with her glass menagerie and her old phonograph records. A few days later Amanda comes home from Laura's school after finding out that Laura had dropped out several months earlier. Amanda then tells Laura to practice her shorthand and typing. Amanda remembers the time that she had seventeen gentlemen callers all on one Sunday afternoon. At dinner she tells her daughter, Laura, to stay nice and pretty for her gentlemen callers even though Laura has never had any callers and expects none. Louis, the mother, Amanda, lives with her crippled daughter and her working son, Tom.
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