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“The reason I’ve chosen to highlight it is because it sets up so many o fthe perennial themes that we’ve come to identify with Williams’ work. Namely, right at the top of the list is the importance of, and tensions within, families. The Glass Menagerie is a quintessential family play, and Williams comes back, repeatedly, to the centrality of the family in American life. He stages—with this triptych of Amanda, Laura and Tom—the loneliness and the alienation and the yearning that emerges from three disconnected, withdrawn, uncertain, fragile, but also beautiful characters.” Read more...
The Best Tennessee Williams Books
Ahmed Honeini, Literary Scholar
