Amanda Wingfield lives with her two adult children in a small apartment in St. Louis. Amanda, abandoned early by her husband, retreats into a dream world just like her children. Tom escapes his dreary existence into the illusory reality of the cinema and dreams of becoming a poet. Laura's life revolves around collecting fragile glass animals. The arrival of Jim O'Connor brings reality into the family's life. O'Connor, seen by the mother as a potential suitor for her daughter, is already committed elsewhere and not only breaks one of Laura's glass animals. The Glass Menagerie was Tennessee Williams' breakthrough as a playwright and premiered in 1945 to overwhelming success. Like almost all of his plays, The Glass Menagerie was also adapted into a film in Hollywood. The Glass Menagerie has been newly translated by Jörn van Dyck.