In the play “The glass Menagerie”, in this play the most autobiographical character is Mr. Wingfield which is Amanda’s husband. He is a handsome man who worked as a salesman for a telephone company and abandoned his family years before the action of the play. Mr. Wingfield represents Tennessee Williams’ real father. “He was a gruff and aggressive traveling shoe salesman, who, on rare home stays, taunted his son as a sissy and called him Miss Nancy” (The Laureate of the Outcast). It is in fact because of his father that Tennessee Williams will

become homosexual, and will talk about this subject in many

of his plays. “Williams expands American stage dialogue in vocabulary, image rhythm, and range”. (Cohn 129). In a way Mr. Wingfield is a reflection of Williams’ father because both of them treated bad and abandoned their family, they were both Alcohol addicts, and had the same occupation. Another really autobiographical character in this play is Tom Wingfield, who represents Tennessee Williams himself. In fact the writer’s real name is Tom Lanier Williams. Also the most important theme in the play is the impossibility of true escape. The symbol of escape is represented by Tom’s missing father and also by the fire escape that leads out the Wingfield’s apartment which temps Tom from the beginning of the play and he will use it at the end to free himself from his family. Tom Wingfield represents well Tennessee Williams because the writer, in his childhood, also wanted to escape from his family. It’s during this period that Tennessee Williams gets really attached to his grandfather which treats him like a normal human being and also, sometimes takes him around the United States to visit other states. And since the writer really liked Tennessee State he started calling himself like this.

These last three plays Tennessee Williams clearly expresses fragments of his life in emotions.

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