The Catastrophe Of Success And Hollywood
The Catastrophe of Success and Hollywood
The play, “The Glass Menagerie”, birthed Tennessee Williams into the world of the successful. This was a life of luxuries, vanities, and a sense of dependency on the worlds “unsuccessful” to clean all of life’s dirty diapers. To some this may sound ideal, but Williams found that this life was numb to reality and did not bring the happiness and fulfillment ever so advertised as a product of success. He discovered that abrupt success did not lead to “happily ever after” like Cinderella convinced us all to believe. Williams writes of his dealings with success in his essay, The Catastrophe of Success.
“This winter marked the third anniversary of the Chicago opening of
“The Glass Menagerie,” an event that terminated one part of my life
and began another about as different in all external circumstances as
could well be imagined. I was snatched out of virtual oblivion and
thrust into sudden prominence, and from the precarious......
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