Tennessee Williams' Characters: Escape For Tennessee Williams’ characters, escape is clearly defined by the aura of the “memory play.” This is so because everyone of them transposes their difficult situations into shadows of the truth. Laura, our fragile daughter-figure, finds herself escaping life at every turn. She induces sickness in her typing class and even as the Gentleman Caller awaits her in the livingroom. Unable to deal with those difficulties, Laura goes to the zoo and walks aimlessly around the city to bide (waste) time. Frightened of interacting with people, she looks to