Biographical or Career Notes- For this drama, Tennessee Williams drew heavily upon his own family experiences, describing the lives of his mother, his sister, and himself. William's father was a traveling shoe-salesman who spent little time at home and for the first few years of Williams's life, his mother and him lived with his mother's father. Tennessee Williams had few friends and his mother and father quarreled incessantly. Williams worked in a shoe factory, which he called a "living death".
             Important Stage Directions or Background Descriptions of the Scene or Characters- The stage directions were a necessity to the play. If you did not read the stage directions, you would miss parts of what was going on. The stage directions also took care of describing how the characters felt and what their actions and reactions were. The stage directions also told where the characters were and what they were doing. Having stage directions made the theme and direction of the play more vivid and clearer to understand. The choice of characters was perfect for this play because their personalities fit well together to describe the theme of the play.
             5. Identify, Summarize, and Analyze-
             Scene 1- Scene one involved introducing the characters in this play. It also provided the reader or audience with a feel for what exactly the characters of this play were really like. It is important to introduce the characters in the beginning of the play so the reader is able to relate to the characters all through the drama. This scene involved Amanda (the mother) talking to Laura about finding a gentleman and how she had so many gentlemen callers when she was her age.
             Scene 2- Scene two described how Laura (daughter) dropped out of business class and really wasn't involved in anything now. Amanda was not pleased with this at all. This scene also told how Laura only ever liked one boy Jim, someone she knew...