The Glass Menagerie And Death Of A Salesman Analysis

"Suddenly Last Summer" and "The Glass Menagerie", we can find a great deal of autobiographical connections. "The Glass Menagerie" is particularly considered the author's most biographical work. It is described by the playwright as "a memory play"; indeed, it is a memory of the author's own youth, an expression of his own life and experiences. Similarly, "Suddenly Last Summer" includes many of Tennesse Williams' real life details. First and foremost, this analysis is going to be focused on the families

unforgivable thing in my opinion and it is the one thing of which I have never, never been guilty” (Williams 156-157). Blanche plainly contradicts herself when she admitted earlier to her boyfriend that a deliberate act of cruelty on her part led to the death of her first husband. She lies about this because it distances herself from the uncouth, unrefined behaviour she so

was later known, was born on March 26, 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi. He was the second of three children, he had an older sister Rose and a younger brother Dakin, born to Cornelius and Edwina Williams. Because Williams’ father was a traveling shoe salesman for much of his early childhood he and his family lived with his maternal grandparents. However, due to the nature of his grandfather’s work as an Episcopal minister the family moved often; residing in several Mississippi towns during Williams’ first