WRIT 109 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Tennessee Williams, Outlast, Typewriter
15 Apr 2016
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Family: parents: cornelius and edwina, father was an alcoholic, siblings: rose and walter, rose was mentally unstable and got a lobotomy. What city did he love and why: new orleans; it gave him material. Manner is mortality. manners were all that mattered, sex was a thing men were lucky to get once in a while. Quotes: the road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom - william blake a dionysian approach, if it"s human valor that moves me. The one dominant theme in most of my writings, the most magnificent thing in all human nature, is valor - and endurance. That he was gay and his father was an alcoholic. The glass menagerie: initially called the gentleman collar, his great success, very autobiographical. His mother and rose were in it: during the winter 1944-45 his memory play developed from a short story of a girl in.
