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Tennessee Williams was an American playwright and author of many stage classics. He is considered among the three foremost playwrights in 20th-century American drama, along with Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller. He became famous with his play The Glass Menagerie (1944), closely reflecting his own unhappy family background. His drama A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) is often numbered on the short list of the finest American plays of the 20th century alongside Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night and Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. The book explains the concept of southern tradition in Williams’s The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire. It studies the women protagonists in these plays, Amanda Wingfield and Blanche DuBois, respectively, who live in the present by the old south’s tradition which is gone with time. For them the present does not exist, or rather they prefer to live in the past ignoring the present. Their minds are preoccupied with the tradition. Their love of tradition controls their present behavior and also causes their suffering. The book is an attempt to critically examine the form of southern tradition and provide the reader with a new approach to study the plays. It also analyzes Tennessee Williams’s dramatic technique and contribution to the world theatre. It will be useful for the students and teachers of American Literature, and researchers in this field.