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Tennessee Williams, born in 1911 (real name Thomas Lanier Williams III) grew up in a dysfunctional and abusive family. His father struggled with alcohol addiction and would physically abuse Tennessee's mother.

"As a child, Williams contracted diphtheria.  He coped with this confinement by turning inward, exercising his imagination, reading and eventually writing stories." (Florida Division of Arts and Culture) https://dos.fl.gov/cultural/programs/florida-artists-hall-of-fame/tennessee-williams/#:~:text=From%20his%20early%20childhood%2C%20Williams,family%20when%20he%20wasn't.

In addition to this, the play contains irresponsible and obnoxious male characters; it can be speculated that his abusive father inspired their creation.

As well as this, he had a mother that was stuck in an unhappy marriage; as a result, she was highly invested in her son.

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During the late 1930s Williams failed to find any success in the screenwriting business. Instead working ordinary jobs such as a caretaker on a chicken ranch.

Eventually, Williams agent Audrey Wood managed to secure him a $1,000 ($21,000 today) grant from the Rockefeller foundation to create his play "Battle of Angels." Unfortunately the play was very poorly received. Using the rest of the Rockefeller funds he moved to the French quarter of New Orleans to work for the Works Process Administration (WPA). A program created by Franklin D. Roosevelt to put people to work.

Although the Rockefeller grant may have seemed like a failure, it brought him to the attention of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio. They gave him a six-month contract as a screen writer for $250 ($5,500 today) a week. During the winter of 1944 he would create is first great success in the play "The Glass Menagerie." The play became an instant hit and won the award for the best play of the season, the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award.

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Tennessee’s primary sources of inspiration for his works were the writers he grew up with, his family and personal struggles like his drug addiction, depression, and his sexuality. That was his main source of inspiration, an other sources of inspiration for one of his book is his sister. He wrote about her in The glass Menagerie, she was schizophrenic which really affected him on top of his father and personal problems.