Tennessee Williams

The Grace That Keeps This World by Tom Bailey revolves around a family from Lost Lake. Narrated by the Hazen’s and people that impact their life in some way, leads the readers up to the opening day of deer hunting season. Gary Hazen and his wife Susan are high school sweethearts that have raised their sons to appreciate the strenuous but noble way of living life. However, both sons eventually slip away as they struggle to find something more than their parents have set up for them. Through the…

In the elaborate book Schooled by Gordan Korman, Capricorn Anderson is a thirteen year old boy, raised and homeschooled as a hippie by his dead parent´s mother, Rain on a farm commune. There, plenty of typical hippie knowledge such as tie-die and Zen Buddhism is deposited in his brain. Though he was in complete isolation of a normal kid middle school.One day on the farm, while Rain is picking plums she falls out of the plum tree and lands herself in a hospital. In the meantime Capricorn, or Cap,…

of bringing in the only paycheck to support his mom and sister. This oftentimes led to him leaving for the “movies” making him incredibly similar to his father. “This and the unsteadiness of his advance make it evident that he has been drinking.” (Williams 26). This quote made it clear that Tom has been out drinking to find an escape from the pressure put on him by Amanda. He finds this escape by going and watching movies as well as drinking. This unhappiness temporarily prevents Tom from…

The Glass Menagerie is set in the Wingfield family apartment which is located in the city of St. Louis. They lived in poverty, and each member of the family found themselves escaping their own lives and withdrawing into a world of misconception. The play tells a story of a family triangle, in which Tom is the central character in the play. Throughout the play Tom open doors and was also in control of it. Anger and rage was portrayed, but the family loved each other. This play can be…

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams Chosen Quote Respond and Analyze “After all, a woman’s charm is fifty percent illusion” This quote goes back to the idea of Blanche Dubois being stuck in a fantasy world and how she has the need to be desired. She says this Eugene. The journey that Blanche described when she is in the streetcar. It is clear that Williams used goes into a deeper meaning that with research I was able to interpret. Going back to research the name of Stanley…

reliant on the need for critics to enter productions with preconceived notions of what to expect when critiquing revivals of plays that have, by canonization, received mythic status. Yet the first actors who performed the famous roles written by Tennessee Williams did not have to compete with canonized interpretations. The original performances of Laurette Taylor’s Amanda, Marlon Brando’s Stanley, and Burl Ives’s Big Daddy were acts of creation, rather than re-interpretation. Over time, as these…

The Glass Menagerie One of the many aspects of The Glass Menagerie that fascinates readers, is that it relies so heavily on memory while exaggerating the emotional value of events that take plays throughout the play itself. The word ‘nonrealistic’ is repeated several times in its stage directions solely to highlight the fact that it isn’t supposed to be depicted as actual reality. A character that represents the fantasy element of the play is Amanda, who is arguably the antagonist of the play…

Matilda: Overcoming Adversity Through Education “Matilda” brightened theaters in 1996 and has since continued to leave a lasting impression. Born to neglectful parents, Matilda (Mara Wilson) is a bright child who at an early age was left with no other option than to find her independence. Her father (Danny DeVito), a crooked car salesman and her mother Zinnia (Rhea Perlman) an avid bingo attender, constantly ignore her. Left home alone all day, Matilda develops a love for reading and knowledge…

Section 5 of Death of a Salesman consists of pages 91-110. The part of this section I had analyzed was of Biff and glad go back home after a past due night with girls. Linda is angry with them and he or she accuses them of forsaking Willy on the restaurant."(Miller ninety-nine). Biff finds out Willy is outdoors fanatically trying to plant seeds inside the lawn despite the obscurity. Willy is speaking with Ben, and notices the $20,000-greenback life protections arrangement his circle of…

A metaphor I find interesting and vivid in The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton is portrayed in, “[Selden] had preserved a certain social detachment, a happy air of viewing the show objectively, of having points of contact outside the great gilt cage in which they were all huddled for the mob to gape at” (Wharton, 54). In this quote, Wharton used the gilt cage as a metaphor for the social trap created by New York City’s high society. The novel was set in the Gilded Age, an era in which the…