The Glass Menagerie Why do people make things sound much better than it really is? Why do they have to look into the past for happiness? For Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie and Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, they are not satisfied to the point where they have "rose-colored" memories of the past. People sometime look in the past to where they have their "happiest" memory of life. They look to it …showed first 75 words of 594 total…

…showed last 75 words of 594 total…cope. Willy was a sad man to look at inside and out. Amanda was an old southern belle that was drying up with no more glory days. Together, they become a really sad and disappointed couple. Life is not always so kind to everyone. You just have to make good of what it gives to you. If not then I'm afraid that you might end up sad and disappointed like Willy Loman or Amanda Wingfield.