Tennessee Williams

In his play, “The Glass Menageries”, Tennessee Williams presents a very disturbed family. Each character of the play is a prisoner of his or her own illusion. Their refusal of facing the reality is the source of a constant conflict among them. Growing tired of the situation, Tom Wingfield finds it necessary to break the circle and free himself from the materialistic world of his family. How he was able to break the circle? Like every young man of his age, Tom Wingfield has dream of a better…

Tennessee Williams captures New Orleans perfectly through his play, “A Streetcar Named Desire.” Imagine walking through the heat of the summer with the Louisiana humidity, the steam of hot baths coming through the kitchen as you are trying to cool down in a two bedroom apartment, the loud sound of the downtown streets breaking through the windows, or even the spiral staircase that portrays the ionic “Stella!” scene. I never understood the truth of this play, until I was walking through New…

Tennessee Williams is a Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright who struggled with drug use and his dysfunctional family. Williams grew up in the early 1900’s His early life likely influenced his plays, which is reflected in both The Glass Menagerie and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. In these novels, there are themes of family dysfunction, and often there are similarities to Williams’ own childhood: for example, the frequency of drugs and alcohol and the strange dynamic of the families in the novels.…

these stories revolves around the notion of how men dictate the life and happiness of the women in their lives due to both society’s influence and structure. This can be found by analyzing two characters, one from Tennessee William’s A Streetcar Named Desire and the other from William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying: Blanche DuBois and Addie Bundren. Furthermore, by understanding the time and setting of the stories and As the novel begins, Addie Bundren lays dying in her bedroom alone while her…

Tennessee Williams’ play The Glass Menagerie analyzes the desires the Wingfield’s all individually struggle with. Although it is a memory play from Tom’s perspective, each family member has an onerous task of facing reality. Throughout their lives, they can never truly escape from the desires that destroy them. Each character’s desires are represented by different symbols in the play. The chest and the photograph of her husband symbolize Amanda’s desire to live in the past. Amanda’s present and…

A Southern Belle Imagined It’s been said that Tennessee Williams was very well known for the complexity of his characters in his writings. The Glass Menagerie is an intricate example of the effort that Williams puts into bringing his characters to life. Amanda Wingfield is a perfect example of Williams’s complexity. Amanda has a psychological battle within herself. Once a Southern Belle in her youth, Amanda refuses to see the realism of what her life has become. She constantly badgers at her son…

Tennessee William incorporates many different symbols into his play, The Glass Menagerie. The symbols cover the breadth of the play and bring about a new meaning to details that are mentioned. A glass unicorn and blue roses are connected to the character Laura Wingfield, and a fire escape relates to the whole Wingfield family. Laura’s unicorn represents her uniqueness. As Laura’s character is developed throughout the play, it is made clear that she has always been different from others…

Ashley Wilson Brown English 152 OM3 4 December 2016 The Glass Menagerie Stevenson University’s production of Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie was a fascinating experience. The play’s setting took place in St. Louis in 1937 where a family of three lived in a small dingy apartment. The narrator and character, Tom Wingfield, desires to leave his mother, Amanda Wingfield, and his sister, Laura Wingfield but has a duty to support his family. Tom and Laura’s father happily abandons…

Scene ____1____ of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams Scene 1 begins by telling the story of a lower middle-class family of three, a mother, a daughter, and a son, whom go by the name of the Wingfield’s. The father was missing because he had abandoned them in their early years of life, and which he left the rest of the Wingfield’s to live in an apartment, which is found in the rear of the building and facing an alley. This sets the setting for the first scene in which Tom Wingfield, the…

Laura thoroughly forgets about her disability whenever she is with Jim, as he can relate toward her differences. Jim enlightened Laura when he quotes, “In all respects- believe me! Your eyes- your hair- are pretty! [He catches hold of her hand.]” (Williams 88). Jim is clearly complementing Laura’s beauty as she is buoyant about his thoughtfulness.…