Tennessee Williams Research Paper

Tennessee Williams is a playwright who wrote many famous plays including the “Glass Menagerie.” Throughout his poetry career, he won two Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights (“Tennessee Williams”). Tennessee Williams was born on March 26, 1911, in Columbus, Mississippi. His birth name was Thomas Lanier Williams, but later in his life, his first name was changed to Tennessee. Tennessee was born into a family with three children and was solely raised by his mother due to his father’s preference for work over parenting. He described his childhood as pleasant and enjoyable. However, all this changed when his family moved to St. Louis, Missouri. His new lifestyle in St. Louis was much different from his life in Mississippi. In St. Louis he was stripped

The only upside to his stressful life was the ideas it gave him for his writing. In 1929, Tennessee enrolled at the University of Missouri to study journalism. He soon withdrew from the University when his father discovered he was attending the same college as his girlfriend. He then returned to his home in St. Louis where he began to work at a shoe shop. Tennessee was very upset with his job, so he again turned back to writing. After years of working in the shoe shop, Tennessee went back to college and graduated the next year. Once Tennessee graduated his writing career began to take off. At the beginning it was slow, but it soon flourished. Near the end of Tennessee’s life, drinking became a major issue. However, with the help of his brother, he was able to create a couple more pieces of writing. Tennessee Williams then died in New York City, on February 25, 1983 (Biography.com

This first connection is narrowed between Tennessee and Tom’s fathers and their lack of interaction. During Tennessee’s life, his father did not have much of a relationship with him since he was constantly working. His father viewed his work as a higher priority than raising his children (“Tennessee Williams”). As for Tom, his father all-together left his whole family behind. Even though both situations are not exactly the same, the big picture encircling both fathers’ lack of interaction between with their children is the