Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams, born as Thomas Lanier Williams on March 26, 1911 was born as a outcast to society. With his mother a southern girl obsessed with her Southern hospitality, and his father, a traveling shoe's salesmen. Williams was born to write about society outcasts. Williams had two siblings, Rose who was diagnosed with schizophrenia and lobotomized and then institutionalized for the rest of her life. His younger brother Dakin Williams was favored above the rest of his children. His grandfather is where Williams spent most of the time, but he was very stern. (Haley 1).
Williams was always looking for times to write, in fact he dropped out of his first college the University of Missouri because he didn't have enough opportunities to write. After dropping out of college he worked for his father's shoe company, elevator operator and theatre usher, all while continuing to write. His finally went back to college to learn playwright and graduated from the University of Iowa in 1938. He adopted his college nickname Tennessee Williams to write his plays and short stories with. Williams was a homosexual, and his partner Frank Merbo died of cancer in 1961. As a result Williams moved around in predominately gay societies, such as New Orleans, Key West, New York City and Princeton. Williams was said to be always moving and wandering around. Williams battled with alcoholism, drug abuse and mental illness. Ht feared that he might go insane sometimes, because of his sister Rose's condition.
When Williams died, his death was gruesome. He choked on a bottle cap at the Elysee Hotel while coincidentally, Blanche DuBois in "A Street Car Named Desire" died in an apartment building called Elysian Fields. His location of death was appropriate for him because it's the "traditional bivouac of wanderers and outcasts" (Haley 2). Which in all respects Williams was both. He was buried in St. Louis in a Catholic ceremony at his brother, Dankin's, request....