The theme of Glass Menagerie

Glass Menagerie is primarily a book about family but it also is about finding happiness. There is a lot of gender roles throughout Glass Menagerie, such as if you are a man; you must be the one who brings money into the family. Women must be house wives and care for their household or they must go on and look for a husband to financially care for their household. Within this story, the family is very broken. Tom is on the verge of breaking down, though he may be financially stable in some sense; his family is falling apart. He is an alcoholic, he drinks quite a bit and he tries to escape from his issues. He is slowly losing himself through his escape and is breaking internally. I believe he has depression and is trying to break free from his problems. Slowly he becomes an image of his father as he progresses and he also leaves he family. If he could of done something differently, what do you believe he could of done?