Compare and Contrast Essay: Lena and Amanda, A Mother’s Love Two mothers, each overcoming obstructions and privation, each with their own approach in loving their children, are both doing the best they know how. Lorraine Hansberry’s: A Raisin in the Sun and Tennessee Williams’: The Glass Menagerie are masterpieces of American literature. Both stories feature mothers single handedly leading their families through hardship and adversity. Williams’ Amanda and Hansberry’s Lena show us …showed first 75 words of 1103 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1103 total…of Lena “…like a rainbow after the rain…” describes the essence of her character. When I read over The Glass Menagerie, I was especially touched by Amanda wishing “…success and happiness for my (her) precious children” - on the moon. As I looked at the full moon in the sky that night, I made a wish of my own, to find my own strength in desperate times, as the two women in the plays have.