Psychoanalytical Reading of the Protagonist in Tennessee Williams' the Night of the Iguana

Abstract

The present study deals with the frustration of sexual drives and its consequence in the life of the protagonist in Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana.The abnormal behaviours-anxiety, forgetfulness, aversion to sensuality, obsession, guilt feeling and suicidal attempt-have altered his personality from church priest to a neurotic. The root of the above behaviours-as pathogenic manifestation of the repression-can be traced back especially to the traumatic childhood experience and the later submission to the religious study and practice at the cost of senses.