Essays on The Glass Menagerie

This volume traces the growth of Tennessee Williams from being a fragile child to becoming one of America's greatest playwrights, also highlighting the playwright's deep indebtedness to the Southern literary conventions.

Autorentext

Tania Chakravertty is the Dean of Students' Welfare, Diamond Harbour Women's University, West Bengal, India. She is the author of Ernest Hemingway and the Fluidity of Gender: A Socio-Cultural Analysis of Selected Works.

Inhalt

1 Tennessee Williams: the Formative Years

2 Autobiographical Elements in The Glass Menagerie

3 Tennessee Williams, the Southern Writer

4 Williams's Play with Time: The Glass Menagerie as a Memory Play

5 Experiments with Form in The Glass Menagerie

6 The Wingfields and the Gentleman Caller: A Study of the Characters in The Glass Menagerie

Conclusion