Then all at once my sister touches my shoulder. The window is filled with pieces of coloured glass, tiny transparent bottles in delicate colours, like bits of a shattered rainbow. He uses his experiences so as to universalize them through the means of the stage. I pass the lighted window of a shop where perfume is sold. The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams Biography Tennessee Williams Biography More than with most authors, Tennessee Williams personal life and experiences have been the direct subject matter for his dramas. Perhaps I am walking along a street at night, in some strange city, before I have found companions. Perhaps it was only a piece of transparent glass. It always came upon me unawares, taking me altogether by surprise. I would have stopped, but I was pursued by something. The cities swept about me like dead leaves, leaves that were brightly coloured but torn away from their branches. I descended the steps of the fire escape for a last time and followed, from then on, in my father’s footsteps, attempting to find in motion what was lost in space. It's defined as a 'memory play,' which means that the story is told through the reflection and memories of the. Not long after that I was fired for writing a poem on the lid of a shoebox. Tennessee Williams's play The Glass Menagerie was first performed in 1944. I went much further–for time is the longest distance between two places.
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