A Biographical Review of the Glass Menagerie

A Biographical Analysis of The churl menagerie and Tennessee Williams Its plain in the ferment and the living of Tennessee Williams that he was, in fact, writing nigh himself and his family when he wrote The Glass Menagerie. The Glass Menagerie was the first success of Tennessee Williams c arer. He says in the beginning of the play, I give you truth in the enjoyable disguise of illusion (Williams 47). The characters gobbler, Laura, and A gentlemanda are truly much like Williams, his child rosiness, and his pay back Edwina.We are able to see this when we look into Tennessee Williams life. tom turkey, the fibber, cigarette be viewed as himself, Thomas Lanier Williams. There are many similarities between his life and his character gobblers life. These similarities tooshie be found in his actions, the actions in the life of his family. First we look at Tennessee Williams life, and how it is genuinely bodred to the life of the character tom turkey. He is the narrator , an undisguised invention of the play. He takes any(prenominal) license with dramatic convention as is convenient to his purposes.I am the narrator of the play, and besides a character in it. The other characters are my mother, Amanda, my sister, Laura. (Williams 47). Tom is the narrator, and the narrator is the one who tells the story, we can justify that Tom resembles Tennessee Williams. This means we can also relate Amanda to Williams mother Edwina Williams and Laura as his sister, Rose Williams. Tennessee Williams dropped egress of senior high school school when his founder asked him to leave school to work in a warehouse. In the play, Tom also dropped out of school to work in a shoe factory.Tom says, Listen You presuppose Im unwarranted about the warehouse You think Im in warmth with the Continental Shoe producers? You think I want to spend fifty-five age down there in that Celotex interior With fluorescent tubes Look Id rather somebody picked up a crowbar and batter out my brains than go back mornings (Williams 56). Both Williams and Tom blamed their families for their worthless jobs and the lives they lived. Williams loved poetry and was his way of escaping the thought of his terrible job and demoralize life. Tom is also a poet in our play. Jim knew of my secret practice of preceding(a) to a cabinet of the washroom to work on poems when business was slack in the warehouse. He called me Shakespeare. (Williams 68). Both Tom and Williams wanted to get out of their strong lives by playwright and poetry. Like Tom, Tennessee Williams left home to live in New Orleans when he was 28. Moreover, Tom is a little bout younger than this in the play. Tom leaves home in the end because it is memory him back from what he wants to do. His nature is not remorseless, however to escape from a trap he has to act without pity. (Williams 46).The breed in The Glass Menagerie worked for a phone company who fell in love with distance. He gave up the job with the telephone company and skipped the light fantastic of this town. (Williams 47). Tennessee Williams father was a traveling salesman. Just like in The Glass Menagerie, Williams father was also not home as often as his family wouldve liked. charm he was growing up, Tennessee Williams and his family moved into an apartment in St. Louis. The face doorway of their house was opening up to look at an alley. In the play, Tom describes to the audience where his family lives.He says, The apartment faces an alley and is entered by a fire-escape, a social system whose name is a bit of accidental truth, for all of these huge buildings are always burning with the slow and implacable fires of human desperation. (Williams 46). Also, Tennessee Williams eventually played out some time at Washington University in St. Louis but finish up going to the University of Iowa instead. In The Glass Menagerie, Toms mother Amanda says to him, a night-school course in accounting at Washington-U Just thin k what a wonderful thing that would be for you son. (Williams 62).We can see how Tennessee Williams didnt want to remain in St. Louis University to attend school. Tennessee Williams and his sister were very close. him around like a ghost through his life and his art because she was not all there with him. However, he loved her very much, like Tom in The Glass Menagerie loves his sister Amanda. Tom says to his mother, Laura seems all those things to you and me because shes ours and we love her. We don t even notice shes game anymore. (Williams 66). It is also true that the Character Laura in The Glass Menagerie is very much like Williams sister Rose.She was diagnosed clinically insane in 1938 after he graduated from the University of Iowa. Its obvious that Laura seems very strange sometimes. Tom says Laura is very different from other girls. Through the eyeball of strangers, shes terribly shy, and lives in a world of her own and those things maker her seem a little peculiar to pe ople outside the house. (Williams 66). Rose spent almost all of her life in sanitariums. Edwina act to catch out Rose a mate by sending her to Business Col subdivisione, but failed her first assignment and neer continued.Amanda says to Laura, No dear, you go in the front room and study your typewriter chart. Or practice your shorthand a little. gravel fresh and pretty Its almost time for our gentlemen societys to start arriving. (Williams 50). Amanda had also sent Laura to business school. In the play, Laura cracks under pressure and the scrutiny of her write teacher and does not get a job to support her self. In Amanda and in Rose Williams life there was a gentleman caller in particular for Rose/Laura, who opened them up but never came back. We are going to take hold one. What? A gentleman callerDo you realize that hes the first young man weve introduced to your sister? Its terrible, dreadful, disgraceful that poor little sister has never reliable a single gentleman caller (Williams 64). Both in our play and also for the real Rose Williams, hopes were restrained on this young man whose characters referred to as Jim in The Glass Menagerie. Jim mistakes Lauras absence of school for her affection as Blue Roses and ends up referring to her as this through high school. This can also provide evidence that Laura is Rose Williams. In the start of The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams says this about Laura. A childhood illness has left her crippled very well fragile. (Williams 46). Rose was more mentally inept instead of having pitiful leg like Laura. However, they are both defected fragile young women who were abandoned by their fathers, gentlemen callers, and brothers in the end. Williams and his mother didnt get along much and says this of her, A little woman of spectacular but confused vitality clinging insanely to another time and place certainly she has endurance and a kind of heroism, and though her foolishness makes her unwittingly cruel at t imes, there is great tenderness in her slight person. (Williams 46). This identifies description of what Edwina Williams was like. She obviously had many bad experiences with Tennessee Williams father that made her sad and difficult for Williams. Furthermore even though they didnt get along, Williams loved his mother very much. His mother raise Williams almost entirely herself. She was domineering of him and very sheltering. Proof can be found during the exchange at the dinner table Amanda says to Tom So chew your food and give your salivary glands a chance to flow You re not excused from the table.You smoke too much. (Williams 48). There are many instances where it is shown that, like in real life, the mother and son have a difficult time with each other. Tom is very intent of his mother but later says, now that we cannot hear the mothers speech, her silliness is asleep(p) and she has dignity and tragic beauty. (Williams 88). This evidence proves that, in the end, Williams lo ved his mother very much In the end of the play Tom says Oh Laura, Laura, I tried to leave you behind me, but I am more constant than I intended to beI reach for a cigarette, I cross the street, I run into the movies or a bar, I taint a drink, and I speak to the nearest stranger anything that can scotch your candles out For nowadays the world is lit by lightning Blow out your candles, Laura and so good-bye. (Williams 88). Tennessee Williams literary work was entirely in recognition and history to his sister, his family, and his life. Works Cited Rusinko, Susan. Biography Of Tennessee Williams. Critical Insights Tennessee Williams. 8-13. n. p. Salem Press, 2010. Literary Reference Center. Web. 6 Nov. 2012. Williams, Tennessee. The Glass Menagerie. New York New Directions, 1999. Print.