On March 26, 1911, Thomas Lanier Williams is born in Columbus, Mississippi. He’s the second child and first son of Cornelius Coffin Williams, and Edwina Dakin Williams. Tennessee’s father is a traveling shoe salesman, and due to his frequent absences, his mother and sister Rose live with his maternal grandparents Reverend and Walter E. Dakin in the rectory of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. (Falk 22-23)

When Tom was three a nearly fatal attack of diphtheria leaves Tom an invalid for almost two years, during which time he relies heavily on the life of the imagination, fueled by the attentions of his mother, grandmother, sister, and Ozzie. Ozzie is a black nursemaid and teller of supernatural tales, who lives with family until Tom is six. (Leverich 72)

At the age of eleven, Tom’s mother buys him a second-hand typewriter. He begins writing stories as a “compensation” for his discovery of snobbery in “middle

American life.” When he was fifteen he won five dollars for his entry in an essay contest, “Can a Good Wife be a Good Sport?” The next month he wins ten dollar from Loew’s State Theatre in St. Louis for the best review of the movie “Stella Dall

From 1943 Tennessee Williams spends most of his time writing full lengths plays. His award winning play “Battle of Angles” won a thousand dollars from the National Institute of Arts Letters. One of his major works “The Glass Menagerie” opens in theatre in 1944, and 1945 in New York and wins New York critics award. In 1947 his other famous work “A streetcar named desire” opens in New York, and wins second New York Critics’ Circle Award and Pulitzer Prize. In 1955 “Cat on the hot tin roof” wins his third Critics’ Circle award and second Pulitzer Prize. For the next thirty years Tennessee Williams wrote numerous works and plays. In 1982 at age of seventy-one he receives an honorary degree from Harvard University. (Falk 25-33)

Hannah is saying is that sometimes people are so caught up in life they don’t see who really wants to help them, she’s trying to tell Shannon that she’s the person trying to help him. William notes in the stage direction that “the storm with its white convulsions of light, it is like a giant white bird attacking the hilltop of the Costa Verde.” This signifies the turning point of the play.

In most of Tennessee’s works, his writing usually surrounds the themes of sex, violence, and the exploration of desire. These themes are presented in almost all his works and some of his well known work are the plays “You touched me!”, “a streetcar named desire”, “the rose tattoo”, “cat on a hot tin roof”, and “the night of the iguana”. Tennessee’s works are always related to these topics

because he has the talent in creating the mood and putting his feelings of these themes into words. (Faulk 36-40)

William’s work. This play was written in a period of “spiritual exhaustion,” and it seemed to be a mellow, reflective summation of many of his own “mixed feelings and attitudes.” It even seemed possible that the absence in this play of William’s characteristic concern with violence might adumbrate a new direction in his work. When he wrote this play he has not completely abandoned the subject of violence, but he has tended to use a looser dramatic construction. (Williams 985)

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