Her low self-esteem makes it difficult for Laura to interact in society, making her live more comfortable in her imagination. John takes note of his sister's distrustful character and tries to make Amanda understand, "[…]in the eyes of others - strangers - she is terribly shy and lives in a world of her own and these things make her seem a bit strange". people outside the home" (Williams 47). By being so aware of her disability, Laura has allowed herself to distance herself from the world around her. Laura creates this distance by escaping "[...] into a world of glass and music. Old records her father's phonographs offer her an escape that new, unfamiliar melodies cannot provide”(). Laura finds comfort in what is familiar and that is why she escapes into her world of imagination and memory able to deal with the problems and duties of real life, he seeks tranquility in his delicate glass figurines and his father's remains before he chooses to evade the