What conflicts does Tennessee Williams develop in the first three scenes of The Glass Menagerie? Think about internal and external conflicts.

I think that Williams sets up most of the conflicts that
will carry themselves throughout the drama in the first three scenes.  Tom, as a
character, is representative of several conflicts.  There is the conflict between Tom
and his family, established in the first scene when it is apparent that Tom is no longer
a part of his family.  At the same time, there seems to be a note of melancholy within
his reverie, indicating a certain estrangement and conflict within himself.  Another
conflict is present within the manner in which Williams describes the neighborhood in
which the Wingfields live, a suburban sprawl where "one interfused mass of automatism"
is indicative of a conflict between individuals fighting for their own identity against
this expansive conformity.  Within the family, it is apparent that Tom and Amanda do
battle on nearly every point.  Amanda, herself, is conflicted within the familial
situation she presides over now and the woman she once was.  A debutante and center of
attention then is contrasted with someone who presides over fragmentation now.  Tom is
established as someone who is also conflicted between his dreams of escape and the pull
of the need to support his family.  This helps to bring out how miserable he is in his
own life, providing another level of internal conflict.