Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh Quiz

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What sort of behavior did Tennessee Williams exhibit that indicated he'd not taken Dr. Kubie's recommended steps back to sanity and reality? (from Waving and Drowning)

He refused to enter a psychiatric hospital because the patients were all deranged.

Williams continued his life at the same frantic pace, writing hits, then flops, drinking and using drugs and running from reality instead of facing it.

Williams abandoned his mother and brother in New York after his play, "The Milk Train doesn't Stop Here Any More" flopped.

Tennessee remained obsessively fixated on Frank Merlo after his death, which made it impossible for him to live in the present.

What indications were there that Tennessee WIlliams had taken his own life? (from The Sudden Subway)

He'd spoken of death and suicide often, but more frequently in the time leading up to his death.

He told his friend John Uecker that because he could no longer write, he wanted to die.

Depression had dogged Tennessee throughout his career and fueled his addictions.

The toxicology report showed that Williams' body was saturated with intoxicants.

What did Dakin Williams do to intervene in his brother's downward spiral after the dearth of Frank Merlo? (from Waving and Drowning)

He convinced Tennessee to come with him for a visit to their sister, Rose.

Dakin affirmed for his brother that they were the products of an insane family and that they were, in fact, sane.

Dakin bought Tennessee a dog, to replace the one that had attacked him in Key West.

Dakin convinced Tennessee to come with him to a specialty hospital in St. Louis to be treated by a world-renown psychiatrist.

How did Williams countermand the directions of Dr. Kubie? (from Beanstalk Country)

Williams refused to renounce his homosexuality.

Williams had contact with his family within a few weeks.

Williams said he could not afford to be hospitalized for three months.

He continued to drink, use drugs and write.

What condition did Dr. Lawrence Kubie insist upon before he would psychoanalyze Tennessee Williams? (from Beanstalk Country)

That Williams be hospitalized for three months at the start of his treatment.

That Williams have no contact with his family for six months.

Kubie wanted Williams to stop using drugs and alcohol before treatment.

That Williams would renounce his gay lifestyle.