Williams quotes Flashcards
(7 cards)
What did Williams say the main theme in his work is?
“I have one main theme in my work, the destructive impact of society on the sensitive, non-conformist individual”
What did Williams say about suffering?
“Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead”
What inspired him to make streetcar?
“ I believe I was thinking of my sister, because she was madly in love with some young man… they saw each other every other night, and then one time he just didn’t call anymore. That was when Rose began to go into mental decline. From that vision Streecar evolved.”
What did Williams say the play is about?
“The ravishment of the tender, the sensitive, the delicate, by the savage and brutal forces of modern society”
what did Williams say about his characters and mythology?
‘All my great characters are larger than life, not realistic’
what does Williams celebrate? (mythology)
he celebrates the ‘Dionysus elements of human life’
what did Williams say about his writing and the Old south?
‘I write out of love of the south’ - tension of old and new south as central conflict
