Stress is a normal occurrence throughout the roller coaster called life. It can make a person stronger or cause serious health problems that can lead to death. Stress is like a levy imposed to pay for the existence of the human race. Although stress is impossible to escape, there are ways to manage the stress that life throws at every person. It just takes some time to figure out what works for each person. In the play The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, the reader sees how three individuals named Tom, Amanda, and Laura deal with the stresses and problems they encounter on a daily basis in 1930s St. Louis and what may be not always the best option. Tom is the main character and knows that the man Laura has a physical disability, with one leg being shorter than the other. With this disability, Laura was bullied and made to feel high anxiety and stress. Anxiety and stress caused her to not go to business college, as shown when Amanda went to Laura's class and spoke to Laura's professor. To escape stress, Laura has a collection of glass sculptures. This is stated in the scene II information with “She [Laura] washes and polishes her glass collection” (Williams 1251). In Scene III, when Tom and Amanda fight Tom through his jacket and break a sculpture: "With an indignant groan, he [Tom] tears off the coat again, splits its shoulders and throws it across the room. He hits the shelf of Laura's glass collection, there is a clink of broken glass. Laura screams as if she were hurt” (Williams 1257). Laura has one piece in her collection that was only broken later that means the most to her and that is the unicorn, Laura states this with "I shouldn't be biased, but he is my favorite" (Williams 1282). The unicorn represents her because the unicorn is different from a normal horse just like she is different from other women, she then allows her gentleman Jim O'Connor to hold the unicorn and say "Come on, I trust you with him".”