Life in a Glass House
Tennessee Williams is best known for writing short stories, poetry, and plays. He likes to use Metaphor, symbols, and Southern Gothic style when he writes. Southern Gothic style can be looked at as the lost, unbalanced, mind like addiction, madness, obsession, and controlling. Most of Williams writing is based on his life experience. He recreates his life as a child and brings them back to life in his writing. The memory of his childhood is very much the same as the play he wrote, The Glass Menagerie.
Thomas Lanier Williams III born 1911 is Tennessee Williams real name. “As a small child Williams suffered from a case of diphtheria which nearly ended his life and left him weak and virtually confined to his house during a period of recuperation that lasted a year.”(wiki) He had a sister, Rose Isabel Williams, “who was diagnosed with schizophrenia as a young woman” and “began to slip into a make believe world cut off from the outside” and a brother, Walter Dakin Williams (Loewenberg). They lived in St. Louis, Missouri with their overbearing and controlling mother, “Edwina, focused her overbearing attention almost entirely on her frail young son and never accepted her daughter’s limitations and tried to …show more content…
Louis. The role of Tennessee’s mother (Edwina) is Amanda, “having failed to establish contact with reality, she continues to live vitally in her illusions” of her younger days when she had a lot of Gentlemen callers courting her, Tennessee also wrote a story called “The Gentleman Caller” (Williams 923). Amanda tries to control the life of her two children, Tom and Laura. She is always trying to make her kids do things she was not able to do when she was younger because she got married and had kids. She wanted to go to business college so she has her daughter, Laura, going to college to fulfill that dream and nagging at her son Tom to take classes so he can get a better
Tennessee Williams is best known for writing short stories, poetry, and plays. He likes to use Metaphor, symbols, and Southern Gothic style when he writes. Southern Gothic style can be looked at as the lost, unbalanced, mind like addiction, madness, obsession, and controlling. Most of Williams writing is based on his life experience. He recreates his life as a child and brings them back to life in his writing. The memory of his childhood is very much the same as the play he wrote, The Glass Menagerie.
Thomas Lanier Williams III born 1911 is Tennessee Williams real name. “As a small child Williams suffered from a case of diphtheria which nearly ended his life and left him weak and virtually confined to his house during a period of recuperation that lasted a year.”(wiki) He had a sister, Rose Isabel Williams, “who was diagnosed with schizophrenia as a young woman” and “began to slip into a make believe world cut off from the outside” and a brother, Walter Dakin Williams (Loewenberg). They lived in St. Louis, Missouri with their overbearing and controlling mother, “Edwina, focused her overbearing attention almost entirely on her frail young son and never accepted her daughter’s limitations and tried to …show more content…
Louis. The role of Tennessee’s mother (Edwina) is Amanda, “having failed to establish contact with reality, she continues to live vitally in her illusions” of her younger days when she had a lot of Gentlemen callers courting her, Tennessee also wrote a story called “The Gentleman Caller” (Williams 923). Amanda tries to control the life of her two children, Tom and Laura. She is always trying to make her kids do things she was not able to do when she was younger because she got married and had kids. She wanted to go to business college so she has her daughter, Laura, going to college to fulfill that dream and nagging at her son Tom to take classes so he can get a better