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Suddenly Last Summer
Tennessee Williams’ plays typically presented the less attractive underside to family relations and often involved deeply repressed secrets or memories that, once exposed, help characters emerge...
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The Glass Menagerie
There is no direct dialogue that addresses when the father “fell in love with long distance.” But some assumptions can be made. Tom must have been near employable age, as there is no mention...
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The Glass Menagerie
Tom's opening speech that provides the background to the drama is significant in a couple of ways. The first is that it establishes the drama's trajectory. Being able to provide the guidance as a...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
A dominant theme of A Streetcar Named Desire is the beginning of the end of the class structure, gender inferiority and superior status in America's "South" during industrialization. The audience...
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The Glass Menagerie
The obvious answer, Tom, requires a certain definition of “strongest.” To be sure, Tom Wingfield is “strong” enough to break free of the stultifying Wingfield household, but his...
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The Glass Menagerie
I think that Williams develops the idea that the individual who has strength in the midst of human struggles is representative of the most appropriate response to such conditions. Tom and Amanda...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
I think that Williams' narrative can be seen as a tragedy for a couple of reasons. The first is that it sets Blanche against conditions that are larger than herself. Blanche acquires a tragic...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams is renowned as a playwright. Not only was he known for his plays (such as A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), he wrote two novels and multiple short stories and...
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The Glass Menagerie
The ending scene in the drama helps to bring out many of the central ideas that had been present throughout it. One such idea is the construction of what is "normal." Laura's disclosure that the...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
If "fate" can be defined as external conditions outside the control of the individual, I think that there is much out in the world that conspires to ensure that Blanche finds difficulty in being...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
For Blanche' the pursuit of romance is steeped in illusion. Blanche's conception of love and romance are colored by her desire to cling to illusion. It is reality and all the seediness that is...
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The Glass Menagerie
I think that Tom's restlessness with his work and his life is reflective of his own characterization. Yet, I think that one can see how the effects of the economic recession of the time period...
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The Glass Menagerie
As with any open ended fill in the blank question where options are not provided, I think that you could find many different approaches to the answer. I tend to think that the fire escape...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
I think that Stella best embodies the idea that the surroundings in which we live does much to inform and helps to create our reality. Stella was one who lived in the world of Belle Reve, much...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
The character that seems to embody the idea of clutching to delusions would have to be Blanche. She represents this in a variety of ways. Blanche is shown to be an individual who cannot deal with...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
In so many ways, the characters in Williams' work battle for their own vision of reality to be appropriated by another towards whom they have feelings. Blanche desperately seeks this out of...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Blanche would embody the idea of futility in seeking to change the deeply held opinions of others. She is unable to convince her sister to leave Stanley. She is unable to arouse the sense of...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
I think that Blanche would be one of the strongest characters to represent the statement. It becomes evident early on that Blanche's misconceptions about the past and present are easy to...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
I think that the video clip really speaks to how Stanley's animalistic approach would not be tolerated in the modern setting. Stanley is able to use his power, his sense of machismo, as a way to...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Certainly, pragmatism is one of the strongest reasons that resonates with why Stella does what she does. Stella is practical. She understands that her situation is not going to immediately lend...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Love is viewed in a variety of contexts in Williams' work. Blanche features a love of nostalgia, a desperate love of the past in the hopes of providing some semblance of hope and understanding for...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
I think that Blanche's feelings of guilt over her husband's death are highly significant to her characterization. Blanche's feelings of guilt are revealed in this story. Blanche feels guilty...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
In the end, I think that Williams has rendered a vision of "whose reality" between the characters in the drama. There is a sort of "choose your own conception of reality " that is present. This...
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Tennessee Williams
I think that Williams' quote actually speaks to the idea that there can be no such thing as a permanent escape from reality. Consciousness is depicted in the quote as difficult and challenging....
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Tennessee Williams
I think that Williams' quote clearly explains how writing enables the individual to escape into a world of their own making. Williams recognized early on in his life the difficulty of merely being...
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Tennessee Williams
Before even attempting an answer here, allow me to say what a great quote this is. Williams' genius as a writer is evident in his recollections about his childhood. I think that some of it was...
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Loneliness is a theme in Williams' work because it is something that the main characters endure in their interactions with others and their own sense of self. Brick is an example of the theme of...
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The Glass Menagerie
I think that these moments might be where some of Williams' greatness lies. Tom's inability to enter the apartment reflects how he "doesn't fit" in the family. He has difficulty in entering...
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Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams' works can be defined as both Realistic and Naturalistic. Realists wished to show life as it was (defined through common characters, common settings, and an objective stand by...
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The Glass Menagerie
I think that the overall significance of Tom's inner conflicts are to suggest that what plagues us internally cannot merely be escaped from due to physical changes. Tom believes that his inner...
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The Glass Menagerie
I think that Amanda's characterization is significant to the thematic development of the drama in a couple of ways. The first is that her obsession with who she was, the nostalgia of the past she...
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Like so much in a Williams work, there are layers of complexity to the role and significance of tradition and heritage in the drama. On one hand, Maggie probably is the best representation of how...
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Indeed, Brick needs some type of blessing. It is evident that Brick suffers from so much in way of paralysis and seeking to move into "oblivion" from alcohol that he needs something. I am not...
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
I think that this becomes one of the most significant elements in the drama. To a great extent, the problem of appearances and reality hits everyone in the drama. On one hand, Maggie finds...
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The Glass Menagerie
I think that Williams is trying to bring out more complexity in Laura's character. It has become evident that Laura is separated from reality. She is fundamentally more frail and more outside of...
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The Glass Menagerie
Laura's physical condition is significant for a couple of reasons in relation to Laura's character. Initially, Laura's limp reflects a personal difference that Laura has from the rest of the...
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Tennessee Williams
compare the two women. and check the circumstances they are living in. mendacity is the term which will help you understand them. they live in a web made up of the gossamer of hypocrisy and...
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Tennessee Williams
The nature of the question is really broad and subjective. This means that you are probably going to get several different takes on this. I cannot help but feel that the most significant...
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Tennessee Williams
Because Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire is still under copyright restrictions, eNotes cannot provide the full text of the play. The full text is available on various web sites...
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Tennessee Williams
Well, first we define the main idea of “The Catastrophe of Success.” Maybe in the process, a one-sentence theme will present itself. Williams seems to indicate that success will definitely...
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Tennessee Williams
I think that there is a slight danger in trying to forge links between an artist's biography and and an artist's literature when it might not be there. Yet, I do believe that with Williams, there...
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Tennessee Williams
The essay "The Catastrophe of Success" was written by Williams to celebrate the third anniversary of the Chicago opening of his play The Glass Menagerie (1944). The play received enthusiastic...
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Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams' style is characterized by theme, theme related metaphor, theme supporting scenario, setting, and poetic language, Williams' predominant theses are the dominance of a get-ahead...