Williams Verses Wingfields Tennessee Williams’s first major drama, The Glass Menagerie, is a memory play in which Tom Wingfield, the drama’s main character and narrator, is recollecting the events that caused him to leave his family. The play is thought to be solely fiction, concocted by a fanciful mind. A deeper look into the life of Williams reveals that there is little made up about the play. In The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams …showed first 75 words of 1807 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1807 total…Hale 3). The similarity between Hale’s description of Soldan High, and Laura’s account of it in The Glass Menagerie shows that Williams is writing about his life in St. Louis. Tom Wingfield in many respects is very similar to the young Tennessee Williams; as Laura and Amanda are similar to Williams’s sister Rose and mother Edwina. By using this unusual form of narration, Williams could mirror his own personal experiences with his family.