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If you mean the antecedant action, Mr. Wingfield has abandoned the family and Amanda has had to raise their children for the last sixten years. She reminisses about her life as a southern belle. If you mean the given circulstances, Amanda, Tom, and Laura live together in a low-rent apartment during the Great Depression. Tom provides for the family with a low-paying job as a warehouse worker while dreaming of becoming poet and losing himself in the movies. Laura young woman with massive self-esteme issues loses herself in glass figurines and victrola records. Their mother Amanda lives hand-to-mounth supplimenting Tom's meagre income by selling subsctiotions to a ladies magazine and losing herself in a more pleasant past.

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