"The Catastrophe of Success" is an essay by Tennessee Williams about art and the artist's role in society.
It is often included in paper editions of The Glass Menagerie.
[1] A version of this essay first appeared in The New York Times,[1] November 30, 1947, four days before the opening of A Streetcar Named Desire (previously titled "The Poker Night").
Another version of this essay, titled "A Streetcar Named Success" is sometimes used as an introduction to A Streetcar Named Desire.
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