Essay on Portrayal of Women in The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Name

flakeisation of Women in The methamphetamine Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire The plays of Tennessee Williams be often controversial because of his preoccupation with sex and violence. Basic female character types often reappear throughout each of his plays. The women featured in the plays, The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire all suffer from physical or emotional mutilation and seek put to deathment from a man. An influential agentive role in Tennessee Williamss writing was his deliver personal experience. The Glass Menagerie is a play that originated in the memory of the author. Williams drew heavily on his own family experiences, describing the lives of his get down, sister, and himself. Many aspects of the play resemble some of Williamss past experiences during childhood. The apartment that Amanda, Laura, and tom turkey Wingfield share is in the middle of the city, and it is among many dark alleys with fire escapes. gobbler and Laura do not like th e dark atmosphere of their living conditions, and their mother tries to make it as pleasant as possible. This apartment is almost a mirror image of one of the apartments that the Williams family lived in St. Louis, Missouri (American Writers IV). Amanda Wingfield is a representative Southern belle who fantasizes about her seventeen gentlemen callers back in Blue Mountain. She on a regular basis attends meetings of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), which are important outlets for her social activities. Amanda believes that Laura needs to consume some gentlemen callers visiting their apartment because she does not want Laura to become an old, undivided spinster. Williamss mother, Edwina, had also been accepted into the Daughters of the American Revolution, and she was occupied... ...emale characters in The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire. The dependency of Williamss female characters on men is also very evident because they view not having a mate as cr eation a disgrace and a failure. The life experiences of each of Williamss female characters is unique. However, what the characters support in common is an emotional or physical mutilation that they seek to fulfill by finding a suitable mate. Works Cited Falk, Signi. Tennessee Williams. New York Twayne Publishers, 1961. Spoto, Julius. judgement Tennessee Williams. New York Harcort Brace Jovanovich, 1971. Stanton, Charles. Rethinking Literary Biography. New York Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. Tharpe, Jac, ed. Tennessee Williams A Tribute. Jackson, Mississippi University printing press of Mississippi, 1980. Williams, Tennessee. American Writers. Volume IV 1985.