Tennessee Williams Research Paper

Each of these involvements shows a little of either Williams or somevirtuoso that was great n his flavour. I leave behind go in to detail on how these four aspects of A Streetcar Named Desire and how they relate to the emotions of Tennessee Williams life. The first aspect I will discuss is the salamander Game and the similarities between it and Williams. In Scott W. Griffins article A Streetcar Named Desire And Tennessee Williams Object-Relational Conflicts he quotes Williams Williams once told an interviewer My work is emotion everyy autobiographical.It has no relationship to the actual events of my life, hardly it reflects the emotional currents of my life (Contemporary Literary Criticism, 1984) (1 12). So no(prenominal) of the things that actu completelyy happened in the story were based on actual events but its based on emotions he felt throughout his life. For example The Poker game. The first few years of Williams life were nice because his father was asleep(p) for his job so he was surrounded by soft hearted womanhood (Edwina, his mom Rose, his sister Grand, his grandmother) Williams remembers these days as shrouded in kindness, sensitivity, and gentleness (Griffins 1 14).Then his father came home and it completely switched up everything, just like Stanley and the stove poker game. Griffins supports this in his article When Cornelius came home, his explosive nature burst into the quiet, cultured repose like Stanley poker game broke into Blanches quiet bath (1 14). tom turkey L. Liverish besides gives us some insight on this in his article The Unknown Tennessee Williams Hard working and hard drinking, boisterous and uncouth as ever, C Cornelius would still periodically storm the bastion of the victorious household and as quickly leave it in peace (45).The poker night might not have been a huge simile between his life and the shirk but it was an important aspect. Stanley is more important in the play as well as who he re postures in Willia ms actual life. In the play Stanley is the antagonist and Williams does not hold keister with him. He has anger problems, he is a drunk, and he is controlling of everyone some him. Stanley is just like what Williams describes his dad as in his biography all the way down to the poker nights. In his biography it say Williams father, Cornelius put Williams, was a boisterous, strong-willed mans man (Alleviate 2).One similarity is that in the play Stanley gets unrestrained cause Balance has moved in to the tiny apartment with him and Stella and is taking up all of Stalls concern. Griffins says From the start of Toms life, Cornelius was jealous of his wifes affection for their new discussion Cornelius had lost his own mother to tuberculosis at the age of five, and when his heed needs went unmet, he was prone to rage and physical violence (1 15). Tennessee father isnt the wholly one that has similarities in traits with Stanley. Williams himself has some of the same personality trai ts Stanley has in the play.Especially in relationships Griffins supports this Most of Williams legislations were fleeting and short lived. He could be the violent and sadistic Stanley, as in his relationship with Poncho y Rodriguez y Gonzales, a cock-a-hoop young hotel clerk who came to New Orleans to live with him during the writing of the trolley (1 19). The last one and also the most complex and important one of the triad is Balance. Balance is a very complex character in the play. She is secretive and doesnt involve passel to see her in the light or know allthing about her past at Belle Reeve.She is made up of three people in Williams life Himself, Rose and is mother. There is a bulk of Williams in Balance, the main one organism that she is a girl and he is a homo put forwardual. The next one was his promiscuity, because he lacked a in truth father figure he craved attention and the way he got that attention was the same way Balance got attention in the play through sho rt term sexual relationships. Like Blanches, Williams promiscuity and famish for short-term sexual partners was a prominent aspect of his life. Williams himself said sexual activity is an annalistic emanation, as much for the human being as the animal. He said. Animals have seasons for it. But for me, it was a round-the-calendar thing (Williams 53). He didnt have any self-respect for himself so he tried to fill that void with sex just like Balance he could be Balance, subjecting himself to aggressive infraction and pursuing the repetitious consumption of young boys (Griffins 1 19). His mother Edwina was also apart of Blanches character. His mom escaped the troubles of her life by creating an illusion serviceman where nice men replaced them all. Griffins supports this Like Balance, Edwina was a model escape artist.Her mellowed strung, histrionic tauter had chased away many men, yet she kept herself narcissistically run-resistant to the injury by creating an illusion world wher e admiring gentlemen callers replaced any painful or un wanted realities (1 18). The last person that helped build Blanches character is Rose. She had a psychogenic illness when Williams was younger. Balance had her own mental fall out at the end of the play after she had been raped by Stanley and Stella wouldnt believe her. She had already started to drift from reality when she got to New Orleans in the first place.She be so much about her life not because she didnt want people to know about it but I think more because thats how she wanted and wished it was. In the end she ended up breaking down and losing all sense Of reality somewhat like Rose did Rose regressed into a delusional world of somatic illness and sexual immortality in her wee twenties (Liverish 247). These 3 people all have one thing in common that is so obvious in Blanches character and that is the want of a father figure. Rose, Williams, and his mother all just wanted attention and in the end it really messed the m up.Griffins also supports this The hunger for a fathers security, strength, attention, and appraise that Williams made so apparent in Balance was painfully present in Rose, in Williams himself and in their mother (1 19). In conclusion Tennessee Williams had a really hard early life and because of that hard early life the rest of his life wasnt easy either. From being homosexual, to having an abusive father and then(prenominal) abusing sex, drugs and alcohol. That doesnt make for a very pleasant life. And all of these things came out in the play A Streetcar Named Desire. The first one being the poker night, then Stanley, and Balance.