Contributor
Bryfonski, Dedria.
Imprint:Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2013.
Description174 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:Ch. 1: Background on Tennessee Williams. The life of Tennessee Williams / Thomas P Adler ; The mental illness of Williams's sister provided material for his work / John Strother Clayton ; Williams displayed imaginative talents as a child / Dakin Williams, as told to Robert Bray -- Ch. 2: The glass menagerie and family dysfunction. There are similarities between the dysfunctional Williams and Wingfield families / Gilbert Debusscher ; The glass menagerie depicts the tension between gentle illusion and harsh reality / Signi Falk ; The glass menagerie examines responsibility and guilt in family relationships / Alice Griffin ; Tom escapes his family, but not his memories / Tom Scanlan ; The glass menagerie is a personal, social, and religious tragedy / Roger B. Stein ; A broken family symbolizes the broken American dream / C.W.E. Bigsby ; The glass menagerie depicts the destruction of a family / Benjamin Nelson ; Williams uses mirrors to depict family dysfunction / Eric P. Levy ; Williams's major theme is the destructive impact of society on the sensitive individual / Nancy M. Tischler -- Ch. 3: Contemporary perspectives on family dysfunction. Some parents are too toxic to tolerate / Richard A. Friedman ; Parents must stop micromanaging their children's lives / Angela Mulholland ; Children of alcoholics can learn to cope / Paula Hunt ; The absence of a father is linked to delinquency in males / Deborah A. Cobb-Clark and Erdal Tekin.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-168) and index.
Note:Each volume of Social Issues in Literature explores a work of literature through the lens of the major social issue reflected in it, and features carefully-selected content representing a variety of perspectives, and includes biographical and critical information about the author, secondary excerpts (articles by various literary critics) offering both historical and contemporary views of the highlighted social issue, a timeline of the author's life, and a "For Further Reading" section of other works on the issue, and a detailed subject index.
