After a severe mental and physical breakdown in the 1960s, Williams's plays were more or less unsuccessful. There are no 'good' or 'bad' people. Some are a little better or a little worse but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice. A blindness to what is going on in each other's hearts.
Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos.
That is the way we all see each other in life. Tennessee Williams was born in Columbus, Mississippi. His father was a travelling salesman for a shoe company and his mother the daughter of an Episcopalian clergyman. He was brought up in his grandfather's home where his parents lived. The family moved to St. Louis in 1918.