Abstract: This paper first introduces Tennessee Williams stature in American drama as a distinctive regional playwright steeped in the Southern writers absorption in the past. It then argues that Amanda in Glass Menagerie and Blanche in A streetcar Named Desire, regardless of their present existence in the modern South, both cling desperately to the dying antebellum Southern culture, particularly to its code of womanhood. With the frail hope of surviving in the present world, they gradually lose their tenuous hold on rea

Key words: theantebellumSouthernculture, northernindustrialism, anachronism, thestudyofAmericanliterature