Tennessee Williams - A Street Car Named Desire

- Post WW2  American Play write
- from the south (southern gentility)
- Born in Mississippi
- Alcoholic Travelling Salesmen father ( Cornelius Coffin Williams) and Southern Belle mother
 - Interested in emotional truth
- Gay (from a very conservative background)
- His sister Rose was treated for mental illness and was given a lobotomy in her 30's
- His family moved to st.louis when he was 8

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John Lahr 'Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the flesh'

3 Things I learnt from the extract

- Close relationship with his sister
- Didn't really have any fond memories
- Seems as if he didn't like change
- Cats are symbolic for brutality