الفهرس 
Chapter 1 : William lnge’s Life in Relation to his PlaysOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
Though Inge deals with the middle class in West America, he tackles some of the most substantial subjects relative to humanity rather than certain class. Such themes as the relationships between the sexes, the sense of alienation in a changing society, the inability to cope with the social changes and the entrapment of the individual in specific social roles are not specified to certain class or certain nation but rather extend to a wide range of humans. Come Back Little Sheba, Picnic, Bus Stop, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, A Loss of Roses, Splendor in The Grass, and Natural Affection are plays representative of the aforementioned ideas. There is a somehow hopeful note at the end of the first four plays whereas a pessimistic tendency prevails the other ones.
Inge’s plays are inseparable from his life because the autobiographical element is recurrent in them. Therefore, his plays are true to life as well as to his artistic creativity and literary views. Many plays are autobiographical in the sense that they include some incidents in Inge’s life. His Alcoholism, homosexuality and final suicide are either major events in his plays or merely hinted at when necessary. Doc in Come Back Little Sheba, Professor Lyman in Bus Stop, and Vince in Natural Affection are drunken figures attempting to escape their frailties and their present social condition. In Natural Affection the homosexual advances of the guard in the work farm torment Donnie and make it infallibly necessary for him to live with his mother. Sammy in The Dark has committed suicide, Lila in Roses and Deanie in Grass have attempted suicide and have failed in their trails.