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Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983) was an American playwright. Along with Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama.
After years of obscurity, he became suddenly famous with The Glass Menagerie (1944), a play that closely reflected his own unhappy family background. This heralded a string of successes, including A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), and Sweet Bird of Youth (1959). His later work attempted a new style that did not appeal to audiences, and alcohol and drug dependence further inhibited his creative output. His drama A Streetcar Named Desire is often numbered on short lists of the finest American plays of the 20th century alongside Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. Much of Williams' most acclaimed work was adapted for the cinema. He also wrote short stories, poetry, essays and a volume of memoirs. In 1979, four years before his death, Williams was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, more gracious life in Blue Mountain when she was pursued by 'gentleman callers'. Her son Tom, a poet with a job in a warehouse, longs for adventure and escape from his mother's suffocating embrace, while Laura, her shy crippled daughter, has her glass menagerie and her memories. Amanda is desperate to find her daughter a husband, but when the long-awaited gentleman caller does arrive, Laura's romantic illusions are crushed.
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##这本描写的家庭关系要比A Streetcar Named Desire要让我痛苦，因为Amanda对儿子女儿的束缚和期望让人窒息，三人都在逃避现实，互相折磨，这种家庭关系要比Blanche的崩溃更有实感。而且Jim对自卑敏感的Laura的温柔和善解人意之后在对其的打击真是……令人绝望，不知道Laura最后会怎样；还有Tom那句：People go to the movies instead of moving. 最后Tom还是选择跟父亲一样了啊
评分 评分##"....Security is a kind of death, I think, and it can come to you in a storm of royalty checks besides a kidney-shaped pool in Beverly Hill or anywhere at all that is removed from the conditions that made you an artist, if that's what you are or were or int...
评分 评分##瑕不掩瑜的美丽——ending speech oh our sweet, sweet Laura. Williams描写气氛的确是一绝。娃娃屋八音盒旋转木马一样的泡影回忆。虽然对于写作动机有点感到怪怪的、结尾的extra essay catastrophe of success让我感到好不对劲、不清楚（可能半夜读完脑子没有proper functioning）但不管怎么说只要能让我掉眼泪
评分 评分 评分The fact that The Glass Menagerie was a great success when it first came out in Chicago was by itself a pleasant surprise. Laura as a character is almost antithetical to the “American Self,” whatever that entails, and yet she is somehow able to evoke empa...
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