Is being able to shut off one’s mind like a light switch a blessing or does it signify a detachment from reality? The characters in Tennessee Williams’s play The Glass Menagerie are all able to ignore the problems of their world, just as if they were turning off a light. Laura wingfield is the daughter in the play and is very detached from the reality of her life, her mother Amanda is even more detached. She assumes her children are normal, but underneath she knows that they aren’t and this leaves her to live in a world of make-belie ....