Tennessee Williams' Life
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- Created on: 05-05-17 11:45
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- Tennessee Williams' Life
- Mother
- Genteel daughter of a church minister
- Her father thought she'd married beneath her. The thought of being forced into life that was below her traumatized her
- Lost "Beief in everything but loss"
- Blanche's eventual descent intoitrratioality and her incarceration i the asylum are echo i Edwina Dankin Williams' life
- Father
- Domineering, a heavy drinker, had a bad temper, domineering and womanising
- Difficult to live with
- Stanley's predatory sexuality, ingrained misogyny, desire to dominate, alcohol-fuelled rages were drawn from Williams' memories of his father
- Sister
- Mental fragility of Rose and Edwina seen in Blanche's slipping away from reality
- Williams was very close to his sister & suffered greatly when she was lobotomised.
- Williams suffered from severe depression and alcoholism. He died at 72
- Family Life
- the family moved many times
- His childhood was quite unstable
- Echoes of his parents' conflicting natures can be seen in the coarseness of stanley and the desperate attempts to hold on to southern gentility we se in blanche
- He took the name Tennessee in 1938
- Homosexuality
- Alan Grey resonated with Williams' life "You disgust me"
- His father referred to him as "Miss Nancy"
- Some audiences have interpreted Stanley as simultaneously sexually desirable and repugnant=reflection of Williams' troubled sexuality
- In an era when homosexuality was crimilised - Alla Grey married blanche in an attempt to "Cure" himself
- Life as a writer
- Compared life as a writer with that of the soldiers who fought Native Americans to wrest control of the state
- Made a statement about how artistic sensibilities are in a constant battle against uncivilized forces.
- Later he stated the play s about "The ravishment of the tender, the sensitive, the delicate by the savage and brutal forces of modern societal" Blanche and her interactions with stanley andMitch
- Mother
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