Journal 4/26/15

Hello, in this blog I will be attempting to answer the bolg prompt given by Mr. Hoffman, "Tennessee Williams was writing during World War II about the pre-war world. How does his literature reflect on the Great Depression? What position do you think he is (or might be) taking on capitalism?"

I believe that Tennessee Williams writing represents the Great Depression by presenting throughout the book a family that was largely impacted by the Great Depression.  I believe that one of the sole intentions of the "Glass Managerie" was to inform the world on what the Great Depression was like on the common family.  The reflection in his book is in the fact that even though it is a fictional story, the book focusses on the suffering that was present throughout the Great Depression.  The literature of Williams presents a viewpoint on the Great Depression that may not be seen regularly by the people of that time, and if they did not see it they encountered something very very similar.  More importantly, what these writtings do for us is give the people of today, a day after the Great Depression, a viewpoint into what many people experienced throughout the Great Depression; and it deisplays the effects that the Gread Depression possessed on a family.

I believe that Tennessee Williams takes both a positive and negative viewpoint on capitolism and then he shows it throughout the book by the utilization of the different characters in the book.  I believ that there are differnet viewpoints presented by the different family members in  the book.  I believe that Tom and his mother possess the greatest clash of viewpoints when it comes down to capitolism.  I believe that Tom's mother is in favor of Capitolism. but she at the same time wants the ability to control the family, and she feels like eveyone in her family should have a dedication not towards capitolism and the viewpoints expressed, but towards each other and the wellbeing of the family.  I believe that there is also Tom himself who possesses a viewpoint that is directed towards great support for capitolism as he views that it will help him do what he wants to do, travel the world, and at the same time not care about a the obligations that he sees at his home.