Should we read A Streetcar Named Desireautobiographically? Do you believe that knowledge of Tennessee Williams's sexuality and the...

I think
that it is very difficult to divorce the autobiographical elements from Williams's work.  This
becomes especially valid in .  There are two specific quotes from
Williams's life that I think makes this the case.  One is from Williams's mother, who spoke
about the intensity with which her son would approach the writing process in his formative
years:

Tom would go to his room with black coffee and
cigarettes and I would hear the typewriter clicking away at night in the silent house. Some
mornings when I walked in to wake him for work, I would find him sprawled fully dressed across
the bed, too tired to remove his clothes.

At the time of
his mother's observations, Williams faced a level of dissatisfaction with his private and
professional life.  It is in this light where I think that it is clear that Williams was able to
use his writing as a way to exorcise out the demons that he felt plagued him.  Williams
approached his work with a fervor and intensity...

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