A Period of Adjusment: Zelda Fitzgerald Among Tennessee’s Woman
A Period of Adjusment: Zelda Fitzgerald Among Tennessee’s Woman

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with the last Tennessee Williams’s play "Clothes for a Summer Hotel: A Ghost Play". Its subject is the relationship between novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda. The central figure of this play is Zelda, whose creativity and sexuality had been constrained. It is a very personal self-examination of Williams, through her character, to confront and come to grips with the mental issues that dominated his family. Zelda, whose love affair with a French aviator proves that Scott in this love triangle is, then, sexually inadequate and self doubtful, has something of a predatory female. The play is set after the deaths of all the principles, in a kind of mental asylum – ghostly purgatory. It is an almost unknown Williams play, which is both thematically consistent and radically new and fresh.

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