Snake

A tortured, reclusive genius with a devastating artistic sting.

Tennessee Williams was intensely private and deeply introverted despite his fame, retreating into obsessive creative work and shunning the social world that exhausted him. His plays — A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie — reveal a meticulous, almost painful focus on inner emotional truth, the hallmark of the snake's solitary artistic perfectionism. Like the snake, he was chronically misunderstood, struggled with feelings of being an outsider, and delivered work of piercing, unexpected power from a life lived largely in the shadows of anxiety, addiction, and self-doubt.