Tennessee Williams Style Of Writing

Tennessee Williams was a very interesting man whose stories and plays will be carried on forever by the ones who enjoy them. Tennessee Williams plays and stories are all mostly reflections of the way he lived his life and the experiences within his life. He battled through an early childhood that was full of illness and persevered to become one of America 's greatest playwrights.

Tennessee Williams’s life started with a struggle and also ended with a struggle. The playwright known as Tennessee Williams was born on March 26, 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi. His name, in fact, is not really “Tennessee”. Williams was actually born with the name Thomas Lanier Williams and later changed it to Tennessee (“Williams”). Tennessee Williams’ family life

The first style would be called Personalized fiction. This style is when an author uses experiences and events from his own life in his stories. There are many different occurrences of this in Williams’s writing. One of these would be the character Big Daddy from his play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Sloan). Like Big Daddy, Williams’ own father was a harsh man who was very cold towards others. It was also noted the the character Tom, from Williams’ play The Glass Menagerie, was based on Tennessee Williams’s own experiences. Williams himself implied this through his writing (Sloan). A director named Elia Kazan stated "everything in [Williams '] life is in his plays, and everything in his plays is in his life” (Sloan). Other instances where Williams incorporates his own life in his plays is when he uses his sister as a motivation behind many characters. His sister, Rose, was mentally impaired and sexually abused. This affected Williams greatly because he was very close to his sister. There are many times in his writing where a connection between Rose and something in the story is found. In his plays, the rose is symbolic of power, passion, and strength (Sloan). Another style of writing that Williams is famous for is called Local Color. This style of writing is a style that focuses mostly on a specific region (Sloan). One of these regions that Williams focused on greatly would be the South. For example, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is set in Mississippi on a very large cotton plantation. All of these descriptions of the setting point toward the south. Along with the ties to the South in his work, it is also noted that he had a southern gothic style of writing because of the vulgarness of some of his work (Sloan). He falls into this category because of the vulgarities of some of the characters he produced and because of the risque topics he chose to write about. Tennessee Williams died on February