The Dramatic World of Tennessee Williams

manifestly there is no cut back with the inevitable influence on his penning of the informants cultural background, individualizedity, personal emotions, and livelihood experience. This reflection of the cunningificer on his work whitethorn level off be to such extent pervasive that the writer ends up writing some(prenominal) but same books, relation back the same story shake from his own life wounds. If anything, the lodge between the celebrated author of Streetcar and his work is even deeper, transformed into a perpetrate identification. Donahue in The Dramatic knowledge domain of Tennessee Williams quotes him as proclaiming, A poets life is his work and his work is his life. consecutive enough, living a itinerant life, moving from city to city, in search of his decaying post-bellum South, he unploughed revisiting, through the characters he staged, his hard childhood and youth, and he unploughed trying to write in the less fecund act half of his career fra ught(p) with personal tragedies.\nThe debate is elsewhere, in the disturbing egocentric record of the quote. If a work of art inevitably reflects the personality of its author, should it be forcibly identified with its creator, or directly or sidewise reduced to a biographic document? Must creativeness be that constrained, confined to the sublimation of personal emotions, pulses, and impulses, to the resolution of personal conflicts? why drama must unendingly rime with personal accidental injury?\nThe debate is about the artists purpose. As there is no godliness ring to Williamss assertion, I cannot overhaul asking what could honest writing accomplish? Exposing honestly his homosexual self, his complex and painful descent with his sister Rose and his cherry father, what does Williams aim to accomplish beyond self-analysis, purification, or sanity saving? Does Williams truly expect his audition to take interest in his life story, his lit by lightning  nightmarish world, and his psychotherapeutic change by reversal?\nWilliams sidesteps the question with his defi...