Distinctly powerful, this iconic story is a memory play as told to us by Tom Wingfield, a merchant marine looking back on the Depression years he spent working in a factory and sharing a St. Louis tenement with his overbearing Southern genteel mother, Amanda, and his sister, Laura. While Amanda strives to give her children a life beyond the inhabit, she is herself trapped by the memory of her romanticized youth. Tom, finds his own escape in drinking and going to the movies, while Laura pours her energy into caring for her delicate glass figurines.
