Lovely Fortune’s Reviews > Three By Tennessee: Sweet Bird of Youth, The Rose Tattoo, The Night of the Iguana > Status Update

"Tú measte en las maletas de las señoras."

I'm honestly not sure what the point of this play is (symbolism), but these characters annoy me (minus Maxine, who I actually think is supposed to be one of the actual annoying ones lmao).

"My grandfather feels that the decline of the western world began with the invention of the wheel."

Most people think the opposite lol.

I think it was Joe Rogan who made a joke abt this once on his podcast. He wouldn't want to survive the apocalypse alone, because how would he re-invent the wheel. He wouldn't have the mathematical knowledge for that. He'd be doomed. Lol. So true.

"They'd drop like flies from substrokes on that road...Fantastic, absolutely fantastic..."

Starting the last play: The Night of the Iguana

Note: Page numbers from this point on are an approximation. The book decided to separate Sweet Bird of Youth and The Rose Tattoo from Night of the Iguana for some reason (v. confusing), so the pages started over???

One thing I notice in this play is that it reminds me of two of the others. It reminds me of the other one featured in this book (Sweet Bird of Youth) because our main character, Serafina has breathing issues just like Princess Kosmonopolis, and the pretty frequent mention of the house having a tin roof reminds me of the obvious. I wonder if Williams did this on purpose?

A few thoughts now that I've gotten to this point: It's def. not my favorite of his that I've read, but honestly Williams is really probably one of my favorite playwrights. After I read Streetcar, I really started getting into plays that were non-Shakespeare. I'd read plays like Equus and Death of a Salesman which I thoroughly enjoyed, but these didn't push me to pursue reading more plays like Williams plays have.

"Love and affection is what I got to offer on hot or cold days in this lonely old world and is what I am looking for. I got nothing else."