Essay Analyzing The Biographic

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convention as is convenient to his purposes” (1147).
“I am the narrator of the play, and also a character in it. The other characters are my mother, Amanda, my sister, Laura” (1147). Because Tom is the narrator, and the narrator is the one who tells the story, we can decide already that he stands for Tennessee Williams, who wrote the play and tells the story through Tom. Also for the same reason, Amanda is Williams’ mother Edwina Williams and Laura is his sister, Rose Williams.
Tennessee Williams dropped out of school when his father asked him to. He went to work in a shoe factory, but he hated it. In the play, Tom says, “Listen! You think I’m crazy about the warehouse! … You think I’m in love with the Continental Shoemakers? You think I want to spend fifty-five years down there in that – Celotex interior! With – fluorescent – tubes! Look! I’d rather somebody picked up a crowbar and battered out my ...

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He was also not often home and the children were brought up mostly by the mother, like in the play. We will look at this later in relation to the character Amanda, who represents Edwina.
While he was growing up, Tennessee Williams and his family moved to some “tenements” in industrial St. Louis. The front door of their house was opening up to look at some kind of an alley. In the play Tom tells where his family lives. He says, “the apartment faces an alley and is entered by a fire-escape, a structure whose name is a bit of accidental truth, for all of these huge buildings are always burning with the slow and implacable fires of human desperation” (1146). ...

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