Tennessee Williamss Life Story
Tennessee Williams' play, The Glass Menagerie, originated in the memory of Williams. Williams' family embodied his father, Cornelius Williams, his mother, Edwina Dakin Williams, his sister, Rose Williams, and his younger brother, Dakin Williams. Cornelius was an alcoholic, always away from home; Tennessee and Cornelius did not have a strong relationship, "By the late 1920s, mother and father were in open warfare, and both were good combatants. He came home drunk and picked up a bill-perhaps for Tom's clothing or schoolbooks-and he'd fly into rage."(Spoto, 18). Edwina, on the other hand, revered "refinement and the good manners of Southern gentry." (Barron's Book Notes, 2). Tennessee adored Rose immensely and were close as they could be. The Glass Menagerie is based on a mother and her two children who live in a dream world away from society. Williams' play is drawn heavily upon his family life and experiences; they are very much parallel to the events that occur in Williams' life. Tom is modeled after Tennessee, an ardent poet who works in a shoe factory; Williams was passionate about writing, "He[Cornelius] saw that Tom devoted to his writing as unnatural for a boy his age... worse
Roberts, James L. Cliff Notes Williams' Glass Menagerie & A Streetcar named Desire. Leverich, Lyle. Tom the Unknown Tennessee Williams. New York: Crown Rasky, Harry. Tennessee Williams A Portrait in Laughter and Lamentation. New York: Williams, Tennessee. The Glass Menagerie. New York: The Dramatists' Play Service, Dodd, Mead & Company, Inc., 1986.
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