21 March, 2002                                    Tennesse Williams         "Tennesse Williams saw himself as a shy, sensitive and gifted man trapped in a world where mendacity replaced communication, brute violence replaced love, and loneliness." (Ryan 3176) This one statement explains most of Williams's life. He grew up and went to school in the South. While growing up, he had a disfunctional family. The time frame in which he grew also had an extreme effect upon his writing. Tennesse Williams used his many …showed first 75 words of 1029 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1029 total…his writing. Many of his characters are silhouettes of his own family. His perception and observations of the world around him also had an affect on his writing. Growing up in the south certainly gave him an engaging view of many ordeals. The maturity of the South, peoples struggle to stay vibrant during the melancholy Great Depression were all used by Tennesse Williams to show the many faces of cruelty in his time and place.