Questions:

1. How is "The American Dream" presented here, and what comments are made on it?
2. What are the Problems with this dream?
3. How does the epigraph comment on Laura or the overall themes of the play?
4. With all this denial flying about the place, what are these three characters hiding from each other?
5.  What do they try to conceal from the audience, even? From themselves? How do their interactions with each other cause friction with respect to their hidden demons?
6. How does it work to have Tom both narrating the action and participating in the action? 
7. Do you trust him as a narrator? Does it change the way you see the play?
8. After speaking with Amanda, what does Tom agree to do for Laura?
   A. Buy her a new dress with his next paycheck.
   B. Take her to the Century of Progress.
   C. Build a shelf for her glass ornaments.
   D. Find her a suitable mate.
   9. What is Tom unable to leave behind?
   
   
   A. A glass shard
   B. Jim
   C. His sadness at leaving behind his mother
   D. His guilty memories of laura
   10. Tom states that in memory everything seems to happen to what?
   
   
   a) Music
   b) Fade in and out
   c) Be boring
   d) Be black and white