Drinks are a socially shared thing, a favorite pastime for many people. For the two characters Jordan Belfort and Tom Wingfield, drinks are something they indulge in on a daily basis. The characters come from two very different forms of expression. In Tennessee Williams' play The Glass Menagerie Tom Wingfield recalls the struggles of his troubled family in St. Louis circa 1937. Tom recalls the difficult times his mother and sister go through, including the final moments when Tom leaves the two alone they can therefore pursue their artistic interests. In a different form of expression, Martin Scorsese's film The Wolf of Wall Street chronicles Jordan Belfort's rise to the top of Wall Street. Jordan experiences the hardships of working on Wall Street and overcomes the odds and is now recognized as one of the best sales trainers in the world today. Both males share similar traits, in addition to liver-damaging pastimes; Jordan and Tom are both self-indulgent, desperate and dissatisfied with their lives. The difference is what they get in the end; Tom feels guilty for leaving his family, while Jordan is far from regretful of his actions. Specifically, Tom's self-indulgence is primarily his way of dealing with family life. He often goes to the cinema and comes home drunk the next morning. Tom's need for his books and his poetry brings him into constant conflict with his home and his work. Eventually his self-indulgence leads to him being fired from his job because he wrote his poems on shoe box lids. During a conversation with Jim, a friend from work, Tom states: "This month I paid my dues (to the Merchant Mariners' Union), instead of the electric bill." This is a clear example of his contempt for home, he...... middle of paper...... poverty. Revealing their selfish nature, it shows the amount of actions that are often ignored by a blind eye. Works Cited Fordyce, William. “Tennessee Williams's Tom Wingfield and Georg Kaiser's Cashier: A Contextual Comparison.” Bloom's literature. File, Inc. Web Facts. April 3, 2014Single, Lori Leathers. “Flying the Jolly Roger: Images of Escape and Individuality in Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie.” Bloom's literature. File, Inc. Web Facts. April 3, 2014Tischler, Nancy M. "Tom as an Imaginative Man." Bloom's literature. File, Inc. Web Facts. April 3, 2014The Wolf of Wall Street. Directed by Martin Scorsese. Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie. Paramount Pictures, 2013. FilmWilliams, Tennessee. The glass menagerie. Literature: Craft and Voice, 2nd ed. Nicholas Delbanco and Alan Cheuse. New York McGraw Hill: 2012. 1395 - 1434. Print.