A STUDY ON REALISM IN “ THE ROSE TATTOO” PLAY

Fiction

The play is a symbolic work of Tennessee Williams. The rose tattooed on the body of the husband is the abstraction of love and affection. Serafina and her daughter Rosa stand for the traditional attitude, and the modern one, respectively. Rosario, her husband, is a truck driver, who, in order to earn enough money for material possessions, so sought after by his, Serafina takes to smuggling goods for the Brother Romanio. He has made sufficient money through his trade and the catastrophic moment coincides with the day he is making his last trip on a smuggling run. On the last trip he is shot, and what would have been a sense of achievement in a worldly life of Serafina, is converted into a lonely existence, deprived of her husband, and of material success that would have followed, had he lie d on Serafina cremates her husband in contradiction to the Christian rites of burial. She collects his ashes in a bottle and makes a latish of them trying to deny his death. From this moment on, she gradually goes into a deeper and deeper isolation, and wants to see that her daughter follows her path of life. She herself becomes a symbol of isolation. The most powerful figure of isolation created by Williams, till Alvaro, another truck driver enters her life.

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