“A Chicken Farm in Idaho” by Thomas Lanier [Tennessee] Williams
“A Chicken Farm in Idaho” is an early short story written by Tennessee Williams in the late 1930s, just after he finished college. In it, Williams draws on actual lived experiences from his past (Williams, for instance, found himself scraping bird lime off chicken coops while living in Laguna Beach,...
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Journal of the Short Story in English
2026
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| Online adgang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Summary: | “A Chicken Farm in Idaho” is an early short story written by Tennessee Williams in the late 1930s, just after he finished college. In it, Williams draws on actual lived experiences from his past (Williams, for instance, found himself scraping bird lime off chicken coops while living in Laguna Beach, California, in the summer of 1939) and stitches them together into an entirely new narrative. We encounter here the ubiquitous Williams protagonist—the dreamy, perhaps even delusional artist, whose hold on reality is tenable but who leaves us questioning whether or not he is self-aware of his lies, deceit and fabrications. |
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