The Glass Menageire

Biographical or Career Notes- For this drama, Tennessee Williams drew heavily upon his own family experiences, describing the lives of his mother, his sister, and himself. William’s father was a traveling shoe-salesman who spent little time at home and for the first few years of Williams’s life, his mother and him lived with his mother’s father. Tennessee Williams had few friends and his mother and father quarreled incessantly. Williams worked in a …

…does, but to have to go through that must be so very hard. I think the author of this drama was not trying to make the audience feel bad for this family, but more to make them take a look at their own lives and be grateful. I think the theme of this drama was that life will throw you for loops, and you have to know how to deal with them or learn quickly.