The Glass Menagerie is a memory play for both Tom Wingfield and Tom “Tennessee” Williams as they try to overcome their regrets and to reconcile themselves with the past. In 1943, Rose underwent a pre-frontal lobotomy, and Williams felt guilty that he hadn’t been able to help her more, since he had long since left the family home in St. Laura’s nickname “Blue Roses,” a mis-hearing of “pleurosis,” also links her to Rose.
Williams was very close with his elder sister Rose, who was delicate and supposedly mentally ill. Williams’s mother, Evelina, had been a Southern belle, and his father was both tyrannical and frequently absent. Williams’s real name is Thomas, or Tom: “Tennessee” comes from his father’s home state. Today the play is considered one of Williamss masterpieces and is. The Glass Menagerie is deeply autobiographical in many ways. Premiering in 1944, The Glass Menagerie was Tennessee Williamss first popular success. But the history that most clearly impacts The Glass Menagerie is Tennessee Williams own personal history. Jim mentions the Chicago Word’s Fair of 1934, an exhibition symbolizing the promise of American industry and the possibility of escape. The Great Depression of the 1930s deeply affected the United States economically as well as psychologically.
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