The artist has his solution; Tennessee exemplified it. It was his way of self-restoration. In a letter I received from Williams, there was this: “For the past five years I have been haunted by a fear which has made it necessary for me to work like somebody running out of a house on fire.” Once when I asked him what his play was about, he answered, “It’s the story of everyone’s life after he has gone through the razzle-dazzle of his youth. Time is short, baby, it betrays us as we betray each other. Work, that’s all there is!” Then he went on: “There is terror and mystery on one side, honor and tenderness on the other.” Once, in a fruity mood, he described the play as “an encomium, despite all else, to the enduring gallantry of the human spirit.” I didn’t think it necessarily described the play, but it did the author.