Recent scholarly criticism has remained convinced that The Glass Menagerie is "Tennessee Williams's most autobiographical play, accurate to the imaginative reality of his experience even when it departs from facts in detail" (Parker 3) and that "No one who has reviewed even the bare details of his biography can overlook the obvious similarities between the record of his early life and the events described in The Glass Menagerie" (Presley 86); the playwright's official biographer also contends that "Tennessee Williams had still to prove that this was not a writer's single autobiographical (emphasis mine) success" (Leverich 585). It is futile to dispute the resemblance between biographical facts and dramatic fiction in this play and yet it is worth pointing out that a number of features of the play are not attested in reality and, conversely, that well-established aspects of Williams's early adulthood are not reflected in the play. Mrs. Edwina Williams, the playwright's mother,......

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Title: The Glass Menagerie
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