The glass menagerie, an excerpt

My favorite excerpt from 'Glass Menagerie' by Tennessee Williams:

Laura introduces Jim to the collection of glass animals that is her most prized possession

LAURA: Little articles of it [glass], they're ornaments mostly! Most of them are little animals made out of glass, the tiniest little animals in the world. Mother calls them a glass menagerie!

Here's an example of one, if you'd like to see it! . . . Oh, be careful — if you breathe, it breaks! . . . Hold him over the light, he loves the light! You see how the light shines through him?

JIM: It sure does shine!

LAURA: I shouldn't be partial, but he is my favorite one.

JIM: What kind of a thing is this one supposed to be?

LAURA: Haven't you noticed the single horn on his forehead?

JIM: A unicorn, huh? — aren't they extinct in the modern world?

LAURA: I know!

JIM: Poor little fellow, he must feel sort of lonesome.

Jim accidentally bumps the table on which the glass unicorn rests, breaking the horn off of the figurine.

JIM: Aw, aw, aw. Is it broken?

LAURA: ....Now it is just like all the other horses.

JIM: It's lost its.....

LAURA: Horn! It doesn't matter. . . . [smiling] I'll just imagine he had an operation. The horn was removed to make him feel less—freakish!