The Glass Managerie, A Streetcar Named Desire And Baby Doll
The figure of women in Tennessee Williams’ work
Analysis of the Glass Managerie, A Streetcar Named Desire and Baby Doll.
“If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it” stated Tennessee Williams in the preface of The Dark at the Top of the Stairs by William Motter Inge (1957). Tennessee Williams has never denied that literature was for him a kind of psychoanalysis. In particular, it seems that the evocation of women through his work reveals a lot about his personality, but also about the world he lives in. The analysis of three of his plays: The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire and Baby Doll, shed light on the peculiar place Williams devotes to women. First, it can be pointed out that the figure of women is related to Williams’ relationship with his mother and his sister. But writing about women also works as a catharsis and allows him to disclose a part of his personality. Finally the evocation of women can be considered as a mean for …show more content…
In Baby Doll, the character of Aunt Rose is living with Baby Doll and Archie Lee but no one seems to really care about her. She knows she is rejected and cries out that she is going to disappear but no one listen to her. The woman appears to be living in a world of loneliness. In The Glass Menagerie, Laura is also living by herself. She is so shy that she dropped out school and she now spends her days taking care of a glass menagerie. In A Streetcar named Desire, Blanche is alone in her world of fantasy. At the beginning of the play, she tells to Stella: “I want to be near you, got to be with somebody, I can’t be alone!” (A Streetcar named Desire, Scene One). Blanche craves for company is also obvious in her relationship with Mitch. The two of them find in each other the companionship they were looking
Analysis of the Glass Managerie, A Streetcar Named Desire and Baby Doll.
“If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it” stated Tennessee Williams in the preface of The Dark at the Top of the Stairs by William Motter Inge (1957). Tennessee Williams has never denied that literature was for him a kind of psychoanalysis. In particular, it seems that the evocation of women through his work reveals a lot about his personality, but also about the world he lives in. The analysis of three of his plays: The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire and Baby Doll, shed light on the peculiar place Williams devotes to women. First, it can be pointed out that the figure of women is related to Williams’ relationship with his mother and his sister. But writing about women also works as a catharsis and allows him to disclose a part of his personality. Finally the evocation of women can be considered as a mean for …show more content…
In Baby Doll, the character of Aunt Rose is living with Baby Doll and Archie Lee but no one seems to really care about her. She knows she is rejected and cries out that she is going to disappear but no one listen to her. The woman appears to be living in a world of loneliness. In The Glass Menagerie, Laura is also living by herself. She is so shy that she dropped out school and she now spends her days taking care of a glass menagerie. In A Streetcar named Desire, Blanche is alone in her world of fantasy. At the beginning of the play, she tells to Stella: “I want to be near you, got to be with somebody, I can’t be alone!” (A Streetcar named Desire, Scene One). Blanche craves for company is also obvious in her relationship with Mitch. The two of them find in each other the companionship they were looking