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| Tennessee Williams was born on 1911 in |
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| Tennessee Williams died in |
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| Tennessee Williams won two Pulitzer prizes for |
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| A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) |
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| Some of Williams' most famous plays were |
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| Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, THe Glass Menagerie, Night of the Iguana and A Streetcar Named Desire |
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| The three major characters in A Streetcar Named Desire are: |
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| Stanley Kowalski, Stella Kowalski and Blanche Dubois |
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| something that either you want or think you need |
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| What is the meaning of the quote "So I could get a look at you good and plain!" |
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| This is a metaphor for Mitch teling Blanche that he wants to see her true self, expressd to fit in with the sexual scene |
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| What is the meaning of the quote " I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell truth, I tell out to be truth. And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it!" |
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| The meaning behind this quote is that Mitch wants real love, and Blanche isn't giving Mitch real love, because she is a liar. |
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| What is the meaning of the quote I think of myself as a very, very rich woman! But I have been foolish-casting my pearls before swine! Deliberate cruelty is not forgivable. It is the one unforgivable thing in my opinion and it is the one thing of which I have never never been guilty." |
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| This quote is completely false. That is the significance, that Blanche is such a liar for saying this. The irony is the meaning. |
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