Jan 4, 2010

Twenty-seven Wagons Full of Cotton | Twenty-seven Wagons Full of Cotton

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Author: Tennessee Williams
First Published: 1945
Type of Work: Play
Type of Plot: Tragicomedy
Time of Work: The 1930’s or 1940’s
Setting: Blue Mountain, Mississippi
Genres: Drama, Grotesque literature, Tragicomedy
Subjects: Values, Sex or sexuality, South or Southerners, Marriage, 1940’s, Domestic violence, Adultery, Arson
Locales: Mississippi, Blue Mountain, MS

Characters Discussed

Flora Meighan, the young wife of Jake Meighan. Blonde, buxom, seductive, and mindless, Flora is childish and childlike, behaving like a petulant, demanding, spoiled child while exuding a vulnerability and dependence that make her a stereotypical female victim. Flora enjoys her husband’s physical abuse and willingly accepts the role of baby to Jake’s “big daddy” role; theirs is clearly a sadomasochistic relationship. Flora agrees to lie for Jake and provide him with an alibi when the neighboring cotton gin is destroyed by fire. She quickly reveals...

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Twenty-seven Wagons Full of Cotton | Twenty-seven Wagons Full of Cotton

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