Tennessee Williams “the Glass Menagerie, a Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” with Wilson’s Fences, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
This article is about comparing and contrasting the works of Tennessee Williams “The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” with Wilson’s “Fences, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone”.. I will be comparing the similarities of their works and the differences in their works. They do not share the same qualities but both were skilled and unique writers, different in many ways, but uniquely similar in some ways.
Tennessee Williams and August Wilson were two of the best play writes of the postwar period. I will be comparing and contrasting the work of William’s “The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” with Wilson’s “Fences, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone”. Although they were different in their writing styles they both were unique and outstanding in their writings, and were similar in some ways. Wilson’s writings seem to have come from the different cultural traditions which was related to him being biracial, but more so from an Afican Ameican perspective. William’s writings seem to have related to his unstable household and troublesome life. The combination of nationality, sexual prefrence and troublesome home life is what fueled their phenomenal writings.
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Although it is quite hard to get across the story of how Wilson’s writings came about and to what degree they are actually true, his writing is probably more of a reflection on the time period of America than a statement or theory. There was, of course, one great writer of the twentieth century, John Adams, who was an Englishman who wrote his entire life in writing English. His letters and his letters and all of his opinions about the world were written down, edited and published by the American edition of his literary journal. Adams came from more a literary and cultural background than any of the other American writers of his generation. He had come to write his original work in his native language and for almost 40 years he was an English and Irishman in that language, but he had a lot of literary and literary inspiration. John Adams was, for all intents and purposes, writing in an African and a New American style. He had written poetry, poetry, poetry, and he spoke English, but he was very active in American affairs, and a great writer. As an active writer he thought of all things writing in a literary manner. So, in a sense, I think, to some degree the primary motivation and inspiration of his works was racism or colonialism or anything like that, which I think might be somewhat misconstrued to be to say something about a lot of what he was doing or what his thought were. In my reading of him writing and of his contemporaries I understand the way in which his thought is more rooted in his thinking and of the way he was a racial/social minority. And I think the other thing that’s important in relation to his literary inspiration is to be able to say what he did before or what he did after. And I’ll say that just like that I am always open to any theory of racialism or colonialism or anything like that, even some just of any belief system. I do not deny that it is possible and I certainly do not deny that it is possible to get anywhere with some idea of reality that you’ve got to accept. That we can accept these possibilities even if there aren’t any. It’s always got to be the case that some people in the world view you as a racist or a bigot. And that I think it is not the case to accept those people as racists or they like to feel discriminated against. So I think it’s also true that I think that some of the ideas we’ve come to understand, because some of the ideas that we’ve come to know about racism or colonialism, actually have the basis of scientific research in terms of that sort of theory, rather than of theory. So that’s part of who I believe is the best writer of the twentieth century, not necessarily the best writer just by this way or that way, although it’s certainly true that he was a great American who lived in a lot of things where there was racialism or colonialism. At the same time, there is also one part of his writing that I don’t think is relevant here because it might seem to be a bit too simplistic and maybe even overly philosophical. I think
August Wilson was the child of an Anglo Saxon American mother and African American father. Although Wilson was an atheous (did not believe in God) his award winning drama “Fences”, set in the 1950’s was a domestic drama that examines the psychological battles of the secular “ blues man” in a Christian oriented African American society. Unlike Wilson the main character Troy in the drama “Fences” did not openly blaspheme against God for his misfortunes, yet his obvious disregard for the saving grace of the church still reflects his less vocal form of atheism. While Christianity does not interest Troy, he adopts the game of baseball as a more relevant metaphor for his life.
Tennessee William’s (born Thomas Lanier Williams) drama “The Glass Menagerie” was similar to August Wilson’s “Fences” due to the associatation of the main characters Troy in “Fences”, and Tom in “The Glass Menagerie” being a reflection of the two writers. At age twelve William’s father’s job transferred him to St. Louis Missouri for a managerial position. Away from the security and familiarity of his rural upbringing, Williams became the subject of ridicule among his new urban peers and unsympathetic father, who nicknamed his shy and sickly son “Miss Nancy”. He then began to write poetry and short fiction to relieve the strain of such derision and alienation. He did not deal with the different