Laura from The Glass Menagerie, written by Tennessee Williams, and Miss Brill from “Miss Brill,” written by Katherine Mansfield, share many qualities that allow them to be compared to similar people living at separate stages of life. Both Miss Brill and Laura lead isolated lives and feel very uncomfortable around people due to their fears and self-esteem issues. One of their main differences is age because Miss Brill is an older woman and Laura is a young woman. What is peculiar are all their similarities. Because these similarities are so striking, Miss Brill provides foreshadowing of Laura's life. Miss Brill's life is like an advanced version of Laura's current state. It's an amplified continuation of everything that makes Laura who she is. Laura has an absent father figure so she is already predisposed to problems. Not only is his father gone, but his brother and mother are, for the most part, his only connection to the outside world. She attended high school, but went unnoticed there and kept to herself due to her shyness and deformed legs. So, from that moment he developed a certain affinity with his glass animals, from which the title of the work derives. This interest led her to be even more estranged from society. Someone who lives their life as abnormally as Laura is a tell-tale sign that they will have not only social problems later in life but emotional and psychological ones as well. Miss Brill is much sicker psychologically than Laura and shows what can happen to a young woman who may not have been raised with enough care. She, unlike Laura, has no people in her life at the moment and the reader is given very little information about who she might have had in her life when... halfway through the paper... time moves forward. Like a bad case of the flu, if someone doesn't address a problem that has the potential to affect them in a harmful way, they are inviting the problem to take over. Laura in her young life is not totally against the idea of ​​people but in her world of glass animals she has grown tired of social interaction. With age, views that romanticize not people but art and glass, along with self-esteem issues, could easily progress. Therefore it is fair to say that Mrs. Brill and Laura are extremely similar people facing separate parts of their lives. This is not simply a comparison but a warning about how ideas and views can shift over time to even more self-deprecating places. If Laura doesn't find a way to overcome her mother's controlling and insecure acts, she may one day reach a sad and pitiful place like Mrs. Brill's..