Question

At the opening of the play, Tom is dressed in a merchant sailor uniform, which foreshadows __________.

Jim’s behavior toward Laura


Tom’s abandonment of his family


Tom’s success as a writer


Amanda’s anger at her son

Answer 1

The right answer for the question that is being asked and shown above is that: "Tom’s abandonment of his family." At the opening of the play, Tom is dressed in a merchant sailor uniform, which foreshadows Tom’s abandonment of his family.

Answer 2

At the opening of the play, Tom is dressed in a merchant sailor uniform, which foreshadows Tom’s abandonment of his family. Option B is correct. In other words, it foreshadows Tom's desertion of his mother and sister.

Tom has a double role in The Glass Menagerie. He is presented as a character whose recollections the play documents and as a character who acts within those recollections and highlights the play’s tension between dramatic real facts and memory’s distortion of truth.