Sweet Bird of Youth (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Tennessee Williams
- First Published: 1959
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Poetic
- Time of Work: 1959
- Setting: A fictional Gulf Coast town called St. Cloud
- Genres: Realism, Naturalistic literature, Drama, Psychological drama
- Subjects: 1950’s, Acting or actors, Parents and children, Sex or sexuality, South or Southerners, Fathers, Politicians, Corruption, Mortality, Aging
- Locales: St. Cloud (fictive)
Characters Discussed
Chance Wayne, a handsome would-be actor who did not “make it” in Hollywood and is now a gigolo. He has maneuvered his traveling companion, Princess Kosmonopolis, to visit his birthplace, St. Cloud, a small town on the Gulf of Mexico. His plan is to get the princess, who is really a faded film star, Alexandra Del Lago, to help him and Heavenly Finley, the youthful sweetheart he had deserted, begin careers in the motion picture industry. During their short stay, however, he learns that Heavenly has had a hysterectomy, because of his having given her a...
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