The Dramatic World of Tennessee Williams

ostensibly there is no thin out with the inevitable influence on his penning of the origins cultural background, individual(prenominal)ity, personal emotions, and spirit experience. This reflection of the operative on his work may even up be to such extent pervasive that the writer ends up writing some(prenominal) but same books, relation the same story excite from his own life wounds. If anything, the fraternity between the celebrated author of Streetcar and his work is even deeper, transformed into a have it off identification. Donahue in The Dramatic military man of Tennessee Williams quotes him as proclaiming, A poets life is his work and his work is his life. genuine enough, living a Bohemian life, moving from city to city, in search of his decaying post-bellum South, he unbroken revisiting, through the characters he staged, his hard childhood and youth, and he unbroken trying to write in the less fecund flash half of his career fraught with personal tr agedies.\nThe debate is elsewhere, in the disturbing egocentric spirit of the quote. If a work of invention inevitably reflects the personality of its author, should it be forcibly identified with its creator, or directly or sideways reduced to a biographic document? Must creative thinking be that constrained, confined to the sublimation of personal emotions, pulses, and impulses, to the resolution of personal conflicts? wherefore drama must endlessly rime with personal scathe?\nThe debate is about the artists purpose. As there is no devotion ring to Williamss assertion, I cannot wait on asking what could honest writing accomplish? Exposing honestly his tribadistic self, his complex and painful family with his sister Rose and his slam-bang father, what does Williams aim to accomplish beyond self-analysis, purification, or sanity saving? Does Williams truly expect his interview to take interest in his life story, his lit by lightning  nightmarish world, and his psychoth erapeutic drop by the wayside?\nWilliams sidesteps the question with his defi...