What was the inspiration for Williams', The Glass Menagerie, as noted in the biography, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh?

St. Louis was where Tennessee Williams spent much of his adolescence, having moved there with his family from Memphis. It was in St. Louis that Williams worked nights in the warehouse of the shoe company where his father worked. Much of the atmospherics of "The Glass Menagerie" derived from his experiences in St. Louis.