O’Neill and Tennessee Williams display a remarkable understanding of the feminine psyche. Their women sometime appear to have been torn by the forces of society or by the conflicts in their minds, and at other time they appear as a domineering character. In them, one can see life in all its complexity and inconsistency. The present paper tries to give a comparative study of the women characters of these two playwrights; and tries to analyze that these playwrights explicitly deviate from the conventional stereotyped portrayal of women, and also shows a comprehensive sensitiveness towards the female psyche and the dilemmas faced by women.
Key words: Feminine psyche, domineering character, comprehensive sensitiveness.
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