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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelIn Summer and Smoke.Tennessee Williams reveals the
negative side of the dominant influence of environment .
How the environment has trapped someone into a complex
conflict.Through Alma,the main female character,
Williams portrays a figure of a woman who faces many
kinds of conflicts as the consequences of her status as
the daughter of a minister,her faith as a puritan and
her regional background as a Southern lady.Since she
is brought up in a faithful family,Alma concerns more
to her conduct than her feeling.She tends to fulfill
her spiritual satisfaction rather than her physical
desire.Helped by John,Alma realizes that she will
feel lonely if she still upholds her old way of living.
At the end of the play,Alma accepts the request of a
young salesman to go to a casino,a place that symbolize
sin in her religion.Thus her acceptance of the offer
reflects her rejection of her old way of life and her
belief in the puritan's doctrine.