The Glass Menagerie is a memory play for both Tom Wingfield and Tom “Tennessee” Williams as they try to overcome their regrets and to reconcile themselves with the past. The Glass Menagerie Thomas Lanier Tennessee Williams III was born and raised in Columbus Mississippi, on March 26, 1911. In 1943, Rose underwent a pre-frontal lobotomy, and Williams felt guilty that he hadn’t been able to help her more, since he had long since left the family home in St.

Laura’s nickname “Blue Roses,” a mis-hearing of “pleurosis,” also links her to Rose. The play was Williams first big success and was praised by critics of. I haven't been reading or writing much lately, but I picked up a couple of used books: Nurse Wolf & Dr Sacks, by Paul Theroux, and Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird Of Youth, A Streetcar Named Desire, and The Glass Menagerie, in an old paperback. Williams was very close with his elder sister Rose, who was delicate and supposedly mentally ill. The Glass Menagerie is a 1944 play by the famous American playwright Tennessee Williams. Williams’s mother, Evelina, had been a Southern belle, and his father was both tyrannical and frequently absent. Williams’s real name is Thomas, or Tom: “Tennessee” comes from his father’s home state. The Glass Menagerie is deeply autobiographical in many ways. But the history that most clearly impacts The Glass Menagerie is Tennessee Williams own personal history. Jim mentions the Chicago Word’s Fair of 1934, an exhibition symbolizing the promise of American industry and the possibility of escape. The Great Depression of the 1930s deeply affected the United States economically as well as psychologically.

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