... stories special qualities. He also uses themes that make his stories more interesting to the reader. Williams places characters as outcast to set them apart from the others. In The Glass Menagerie, Laura Wingfield is set as an outcast because of her disability and shyness. Her disability that sets her apart is her slightly crippled leg that her mother refers to as ... take up for herself and becomes insane by the end of the story because of it (Sc. 4). Tennessee Williams uses the theme of illusion in both The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire. In The Glass Menagerie, the them...

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... , personal dramas and emotions he continued to write earning himself a place not only in American but the world literature as well. Among his most notable and successful plays were "The Glass Menagerie-, which he refers to as "memory play-, "A Streetcar Named Desire-, "The Rose Tatoo- and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof- for which he was appreciated winning the Pulitzer Prize. One of ... great Southern writers who have refreshed the literary language with Southern English. "Streetcar Named Desire- which was firstly entitled "The Poker Night- emerged right after the theatrical success of "The Glas...

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A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie were two plays in which there was a woman who played a drastic role in life of the other characters; they were Blanche DuBois and Amanda Wingfield. Written by the same playwright, ... ...

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