Stanley Clisby Arthur's Old New Orleans (Gretna, La.: Pelican, 1990) provides an insightful picture into the setting of Williams' play and a view of the American South in the first half of the twentieth century.
Williams' earlier play, The Glass Menagerie (1944), also portrays a Southern belle, Amanda Wingfield, who represents the playwright's ambiguous feelings about his mother's pretensions, possessiveness, and insensitivity. She also shares some similarities with Blanche Du Bois.
The memoir of Williams' mother, Remember Me to Tom (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1964), provides.....
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