Tennessee Williams was born Thomas Lanier Williams on March 26, 1911. In 1947 Williams composed the New York Drama Critics Award, and Pulitzer Prize winning A Streetcar Named Desire. Tennessee Williams' family life was full of tension and despair. His parents often engaged in violent arguments. His father, Cornelius, was a stern businessman who managed a shoe warehouse. Cornelius' bouts with drinking and gambling (habits that later ailed Williams) sent rumors about the family throughout the towns in which they lived (Williams moved 16 times in 15 years) . In the fall of 1929, Williams enrolled at the University of Missouri to study journalism. His father, angry that Hazel Kramer, Williams's childhood sweetheart had also enrolled there, threatened to withdraw him. The romance soon ended, and William
Tennessee's older sister Rose, was a mentally disturbed woman. She spent most of her life in mental institutions.
Those were the words spoken by Blanche Dubois. Blanche is a lost cause; she lives in a dream world and is afraid of reality. She was quite drunk when she spoke these words; again the theme of alcohol is involved. It is her steps towards insanity, however, that influence this scene. Tennessee uses his sister's disturbed life and applies it to Blanche's character. Blanche seems like the model character that represents Williams. She is heavily involved with alcohol and she less than living in reality.
"Wait a minute. I can't hear what you're saying and you talk so little that when you do say something, I don't want to miss a single syllable of it . . . . What am I looking around here
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