o to the movies entirely too much." Tom replies, "I like a lot of adventure" (707). Tom goes out to the movies in order to escape the boredom he finds in his everyday life. The depiction of Tom's escape using movies is not far apart from Williams's own desire to overcome the boredom he faced at home. One of Williams's favorite theaters, the Tivoli, on Delmar Boulevard still shows films today (Hale 3). The similarity between Williams's and Tom's methods for finding adventure again show that Williams is not just making up a story, but writing about himself.
             Williams also describes himself in placing Tom in a disliked job at a shoe warehouse. Tom works for the Continental Shoemakers, a job that he loathes waking up to go to every morning for what he considers to be an inadequate salary. In scene three, Tom says to Amanda, "You think I'm in love with Contential Shoemakers? You think I want to spend fifty-five years down there in that - celotex interior! With - fluorescent - tubes! Look! I'd rather someday picked up a crowbar and battered out my brains - than go back mornings" (703). This statement very clearly shows Tom's discontentment with his position at the warehouse. The depth to which Tom finds his work unbearable dr
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