Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams was one of the most important and talented playwright of all history. His interesting writing style had the power of transmitting his ideas trough his characters. “He puts his words into the mouths of an essentially imaginative people who speak in the rhythms and colorful imagery of a region favorable to poetry” (Starns 357). Most of the characters in Williams’ plays are autobiographical because they represent himself or a member of his family. We can see this in the following plays: “A Streetcar Named Desire,” “The Glass Menagerie,” and “A Rose Tattoo”.
In the play “The glass Menagerie”, in this play the most autobiographical character is Mr. Wingfield which is Amanda’s husband. He is a handsome man who worked as a salesman for a telephone company and abandoned his family years before the action of the play. Mr. Wingfield represents Tennessee Williams’ real father. “He was a gruff and aggressive traveling shoe salesman, who, on rare...