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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a book about Laura, Amanda, Tom entitled The Glass Menagerie.
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conversations.value: The Glass Menagerie (1950 film): While on duty, Merchant Mariner Tom Wingfield recalls his life in a dilapidated st Louis apartment with his delusional mother Amanda and crippled younger sister Laura, and their story unfolds via flashback.\nAbandoned by her husband, Amanda is forced to sell magazine subscriptions, but still considers herself superior to her working class neighbors.\nConcerned about her daughter, a shy loner who is training to be a secretary, but whose real interest is her collection of glass animal figurines, Amanda urges Tom to bring home a friend who might be interested in dating his sister.\nHe finally relents and invites Jim O\'Connor to dinner.\nAmanda is thrilled that her daughter finally will have a "gentleman caller" courting her.\nDetermined to make a good first impression, she makes elaborate preparations for the meal, but complications arise when Laura learns the name of their expected guest, a boy she recalls was one of the most popular in high school.\nFeigning illness, she initially refuses to join everyone at the dinner table, but eventually Amanda encourages her to join the group, then arranges for Laura and Jim to be alone.\nRealizing she suffers from an inferiority complex, he draws her out of her shell by expressing interest in her collection and then persuading her to dance with him.\nStumbling, Laura causes a glass unicorn to fall to the floor and lose its horn.\nAt first upset by the damage, she realizes the loss of the horn makes the unicorn more like the horses and therefore less noticeable, as she feels she herself is because of her pronounced limp.\nJim suggests he and Laura go to the Paradise Ballroom, and Amanda is delighted, until he mentions he is engaged to a woman named Betty.\nLaura gives him the broken unicorn and invites him to return some day with his fiancée, but after he leaves her devastated mother berates Tom for raising her hopes.\nLaura is more understanding and reminds her brother she loves him.\nSeemingly free of her limp and brimming with self-confidence, Laura awaits a visit from another "gentleman caller" in an upbeat ending that deviates from the play.
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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a book about Laura, Jim, Tom entitled The Glass Menagerie.
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conversations.value: The Glass Menagerie: The play is introduced to the audience by Tom, the narrator and protagonist, as a memory play based on his recollection of his mother Amanda and his sister Laura.\nBecause the play is based on memory, Tom cautions the audience that what they see may not be precisely what happened.\nAmanda Wingfield, a faded Southern belle of middle age, shares a dingy st Louis apartment with her son Tom, in his early twenties, and his slightly older sister, Laura.\nAlthough she is a survivor and a pragmatist, Amanda yearns for the comforts and admiration she remembers from her days as a fêted debutante.\nShe worries especially about the future of her daughter Laura, a young woman with a limp (an aftereffect of a bout of polio) and a tremulous insecurity about the outside world.\nTom works in a shoe warehouse doing his best to support the family.\nHe chafes under the banality and boredom of everyday life and struggles to write, while spending much of his spare time going to the movies — or so he says — at all hours of the night.\nAmanda is obsessed with finding a suitor (or, as she puts it, a "gentleman caller") for Laura, whose crippling shyness has led her to drop out of both high school and a subsequent secretarial course, and who spends much of her time polishing and arranging her collection of little glass animals.\nPressured by his mother to help find a caller for Laura, Tom invites an acquaintance from work named Jim home for dinner.\nThe delighted Amanda spruces up the apartment, prepares a special dinner, and converses coquettishly with Jim, almost reliving her youth when she had an abundance of suitors calling on her.\nLaura discovers that Jim is the boy she was attracted to in high school and has often thought of since — though the relationship between the shy Laura and the "most likely to succeed" Jim was never more than a distant, teasing acquaintanceship.\nInitially, Laura is so overcome by shyness that she is unable to join the others at dinner, and she claims to be ill.\nAfter dinner, however, Jim and Laura are left alone by candlelight in the living room, waiting for the electricity to be restored.\n(Tom has not paid the power bill, which hints to the audience that he is banking the bill money and preparing to leave the household) As the evening progresses, Jim recognizes Laura\'s feelings of inferiority and encourages her to think better of herself.\nHe and Laura share a quiet dance, in which he accidentally brushes against her glass menagerie, knocking a glass unicorn to the floor and breaking off its horn.\nJim then compliments Laura and kisses her.\nAfter Jim tells Laura that he is engaged to be married, Laura asks him to take the broken unicorn as a gift and he then leaves.\nWhen Amanda learns that Jim is to be married, she turns her anger upon Tom and cruelly lashes out at him — although Tom did not know that Jim was engaged, in fact Tom seems quite surprised by this, and it is possible that Jim was only making up the story of the engagement as he felt that the family was trying to set him up with Laura, and he had no romantic interest in her.\nAs Tom speaks at the end of the play, he says that he left home soon afterward and never returned.\nIn Tom\'s final speech, he bids farewell to his mother and sister, and asks Laura to blow out the candles as the play ends.
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conversations.value: Swap the first and the last sentence.
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conversations.value: \nIn Tom\'s final speech, he bids farewell to his mother and sister, and asks Laura to blow out the candles as the play ends.\nBecause the play is based on memory, Tom cautions the audience that what they see may not be precisely what happened.\nAmanda Wingfield, a faded Southern belle of middle age, shares a dingy st Louis apartment with her son Tom, in his early twenties, and his slightly older sister, Laura.\nAlthough she is a survivor and a pragmatist, Amanda yearns for the comforts and admiration she remembers from her days as a fêted debutante.\nShe worries especially about the future of her daughter Laura, a young woman with a limp (an aftereffect of a bout of polio) and a tremulous insecurity about the outside world.\nTom works in a shoe warehouse doing his best to support the family.\nHe chafes under the banality and boredom of everyday life and struggles to write, while spending much of his spare time going to the movies — or so he says — at all hours of the night.\nAmanda is obsessed with finding a suitor (or, as she puts it, a "gentleman caller") for Laura, whose crippling shyness has led her to drop out of both high school and a subsequent secretarial course, and who spends much of her time polishing and arranging her collection of little glass animals.\nPressured by his mother to help find a caller for Laura, Tom invites an acquaintance from work named Jim home for dinner.\nThe delighted Amanda spruces up the apartment, prepares a special dinner, and converses coquettishly with Jim, almost reliving her youth when she had an abundance of suitors calling on her.\nLaura discovers that Jim is the boy she was attracted to in high school and has often thought of since — though the relationship between the shy Laura and the "most likely to succeed" Jim was never more than a distant, teasing acquaintanceship.\nInitially, Laura is so overcome by shyness that she is unable to join the others at dinner, and she claims to be ill.\nAfter dinner, however, Jim and Laura are left alone by candlelight in the living room, waiting for the electricity to be restored.\n(Tom has not paid the power bill, which hints to the audience that he is banking the bill money and preparing to leave the household) As the evening progresses, Jim recognizes Laura\'s feelings of inferiority and encourages her to think better of herself.\nHe and Laura share a quiet dance, in which he accidentally brushes against her glass menagerie, knocking a glass unicorn to the floor and breaking off its horn.\nJim then compliments Laura and kisses her.\nAfter Jim tells Laura that he is engaged to be married, Laura asks him to take the broken unicorn as a gift and he then leaves.\nWhen Amanda learns that Jim is to be married, she turns her anger upon Tom and cruelly lashes out at him — although Tom did not know that Jim was engaged, in fact Tom seems quite surprised by this, and it is possible that Jim was only making up the story of the engagement as he felt that the family was trying to set him up with Laura, and he had no romantic interest in her.\nAs Tom speaks at the end of the play, he says that he left home soon afterward and never returned.The Glass Menagerie: The play is introduced to the audience by Tom, the narrator and protagonist, as a memory play based on his recollection of his mother Amanda and his sister Laura.
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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a book about Tom, Amanda, Laura entitled The Glass Menagerie.. Start with the sentence 'The Glass Menagerie (1987 film): Introduced by Tom Wingfield as a memory play, it is based on his recollection of his disillusioned and delusional mother Amanda and her shy, crippled daughter Laura'.
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conversations.value: The Glass Menagerie (1987 film): Introduced by Tom Wingfield as a memory play, it is based on his recollection of his disillusioned and delusional mother Amanda and her shy, crippled daughter Laura.\nAmanda\'s husband abandoned the family long ago, and her memory of her days as a genteel Southern belle surrounded by devoted beaux may be more romanticized than real.\nTom is an aspiring writer who works in a warehouse to support his family, and the banality and boredom of everyday life leads him to spend most of his spare time watching movies in local cinemas at all hours of the night.\nAmanda is obsessed with finding a proper "gentleman caller" for Laura, who spends most of her time with her collection of glass animal figurines.\nTo appease his mother, Tom eventually brings Jim O\'Connor home for dinner, but complications arise when Laura realizes he is the man she loved in high school and has thought of ever since.\nHe dashes her hopes of a future together when he announces he is engaged.\nInfuriated, Amanda lashes out at her son for raising his sister\'s hopes and Tom leaves, never to return to his family.