... manners and drinking problems. He had two siblings, a brother and a sister. His plays show the reality of life and what can become of a person through emotional destruction. He uses unique characters that re set as outcast that give his 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 ... to him once during sch...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... works and plays. In 1982 at age of seventy-one he receives an honorary degree from Harvard University. (Falk 25-33) 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 ... ...

• Word Count: 1843
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School