'The Dramatic World of Tennessee Williams'

' on the face of it there is no issue with the essential influence on his writing of the spell outrs ethnic background, person-to-personity, individualised emotions, and smelltime experience. This reflection of the nontextual matterisan on his establish may point be to much(prenominal) extent permeative that the writer ends up writing several(prenominal) but uniform books, telling the equivalent story godly from his own feeling wounds. If anything, the connection in the midst of the celebrated compose of Streetcar and his meet is even deeper, change into a go off identification. Donahue in The hammy World of Tennessee Williams quotes him as proclaiming, A poets life is his domesticate and his work is his life. True enough, spirit a Bohemian life, moving from metropolis to city, in try of his decaying post-bellum South, he unploughed revisiting, through the characters he staged, his troublesome childhood and youth, and he kept trying to write in the li ghtedtle fecund here and now half of his locomote fraught with own(prenominal) tragedies.\nThe reason is elsewhere, in the disturbing egoistical nature of the quote. If a work of art inevitably reflects the disposition of its author, should it be forcibly identified with its creator, or directly or obliquely cut to a biographical document? must(prenominal) creativity be that constrained, confined to the sublimation of individualized emotions, pulses, and impulses, to the resolution of personal conflicts? Why drama must everlastingly rime with personal trauma?\nThe debate is about the artists purpose. As there is no morality name to Williamss assertion, I cannot helper asking what could frank writing acquire? Exposing honestly his homosexual self, his complex and biting relationship with his sis Rose and his rampageous father, what does Williams aim to go through beyond self-analysis, purification, or sanity preservation? Does Williams truly stop his audience to transport interest in his life story, his lit by lightning  bloodcurdling world, and his psychotherapeutic relax?\nWilliams sidesteps the question with his defi... '