Street Car Named Desire

Tennessee Williams was born Thomas Lanier Williams on March 26, 1911. In 1947 Williams composed the New York Drama Critics Award, and Pulitzer Prize winning A Streetcar Named Desire. Tennessee Williams' family life was full of tension and despair. His parents often engaged in violent arguments. His father, Cornelius, was a stern businessman who managed a shoe warehouse. Cornelius' bouts with drinking and gambling (habits that later ailed Williams) sent rumors about the family throughout the towns in …

…Williams used his work A Streetcar Named Desire as a scapegoat for his childhood problems. He includes many aspects of his life in his writings. Everything in his life is in his plays, and everything in his plays is his life. Through an examination of symbolism within the play, and Williams' personal life it can be said that A Streetcar Named Desire was Williams' out let to express his pain, and bitterness towards his childhood.