Illusions offer things that the real world cannot. The characters of "the glass menagerie," by Tennessee Williams, are attracted to what a world of illusions has to offer. Because they cannot accept reality, it offers them an escape from the cruel realities of their lives. However, this only distracts them from confronting the issues of reality, and their problems only continue to grow larger. Tom, the only son and the oldest child, has his own …showed first 75 words of 809 total…

…showed last 75 words of 809 total…all of those gentlemen callers that she dreamed would come for Laura would enter. Amanda never faced that facts that Laura wasn't like her and that she wasn't going to get gentlemen callers. Tom never realized he wasn't going to get anywhere in life writing poetry, and Laura never learned how to face the outside world. Because they didn't solve their problems, in the end they couldn't escape the illusionary world they created for themselves.