This is a good question that can be answered from
different perspectives. One, Jim is representative of the real world because he was the
only visitor that the family had in years. What this means is that Jim precisely
represents "the" outside world from which Amanda and Laura hide, and the world which Tom
tries to escape.
Also, Jim represents what "once was" and
could not sustain. A former school hero, most likely to succeed, impressed everyone, and
had the admiration of Laura in secret. Yet, none of those promising things came to
anything, and this is representative of how bad the economy, and the world around them
was going. Life was not to be rosy after all, for any of them.
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