| | The Rose Tattoo |  | Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: Signet
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 5351482
Media: Paperback
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Dimensions (in): 7 x 5 x 1
ISBN: 0451012364
EAN: 9780451012364
ASIN: 0451012364
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The Corrupting Rush of Time December 15, 2004
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a good, not great Williams drama, about a woman named Serafina Delle Rose, a spirited, vivacious Sicilian immigrant living somewhere along the Gulf Coast. While she is stricken by a death early on in the play, it is her heart and soul which throughout the story is subject to her own mania. She is an insensed woman, in the stereotypical Italian thrust, full of big gestures and deep longing. Also a devout Catholic, her spiritually gut wrenching journey is tied very much into the Virgin Mary.
Without dealing with what happens and why and who it happens to, this is very much a Williams play. A widowed woman, yearning for a life that is gone, sexually frustrated, emotionally wracked. There is also much symbolism, in particular Catholic symbolism, and spiritual superstition. Serafina's sexually blossoming daughter is where Serafina once was, and this provides for conflict, but the sub-plot here is not great, and the majority of the play is Serafina's wild twisting from love toward love, with the gamut in between.
"Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence." So says Tennessee in a terrific short essay called The Timeless World Of A play, which opens the book.
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