Tennessee Williams His Life in quot;Suddenly Last...

In the study of Tennessee Willliams plays: Suddenly Last Summer and The Glass Menagerie, we can find a great deal of autobiographical connections. The Glass Menagerie is particularly considered the authors most biographical work. It is described by the playwright as a memory play; indeed, it is a memory of the authors own youth, an expression of his own life and experiences. Similarly, Suddenly Last Summer includes many of Tennesse Williams real life details. First and foremost, this analysis is going to be focused on the families of both plays since these families are undoubtedly connected, particularly the Wingfield family, with Tennesse Willimas family. Thus, in The Glass Menagerie, Tennesse Williams is writing about†¦show more content†¦Louis. By the way, St. Louis is another biographical element, portrayed in The Glass Menagerie as that cold northern city (pp. 233), a place of isolation for both the narrator and the author of the play. It is opposite to the grace and elegance of the Old South which is a great influence on his work and life, Tennesse Williams asserted: I assure you that the South is the country of my heart as well as my birth (1: Holditch/ Leavitt, Tennesse Williams and the South, pp 88), reflecting his deep love for the South. This change in Williamss life meant the end of the Southern idyll and the beginning of a new but unhappy time which would be marked by the isolation and internal conflicts. Later, his father withdrew him from the University and pushed him onto the warehouse of a shoe company where he felt miserable and frustrated as an artist. Similarly, Tom Wingfield, Tennesse Williams himself, works in a shoe company even though he hates it. Both Tennesse Williams and Tom Wingfield are tormented by the conflict between the desire to live ones own life and the responsibility for ones family. They feel like prisoners in their own home and wish for a new independent life. In the end, Tom (Tennesse Williams) flees St. Louis just as his father had done. Curiously, it is a blow-up photograph of the father(pp.234) that hangs on the wall of the Wingfield apartment. He is gallantly smiling, ineluctably smiling (pp.234). Therefore, the presence of the father