Night Of The Iguana

Night of the Iguana Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams is a melodramatic tale of an ex-reverend’s struggle between his faith and sexual desires. Shannon, the ex-reverend, finds him-self fighting between the two conflicting sides of his personality. Shannon’s inner conflict consisted of his desire for young women, as a result of a childhood trauma, and his lust for a lifestyle of purity influenced by god. Shannon’s two conflicting sides are represented by the puritanical and judgmental Ms. Fellowes and the openly lustful Maxine. Hannah, accepting and serene, represents Shannon’s salvation to his internal conflict. With these three women, Williams represents the different aspects of Shannon’s personality which leads to the ultimate resolution of his inner conflict.
Fellows, a woman depicted as a butch lesbian, shows great loathing for Shannon. Ms. Fellowes’s is the play’s physical representation of Shannon’s struggles with his faith. The distain stems from the desire for a young girl, Charlotte, with whom Ms. Fellowes is responsible for. Charlotte’s romantic approaches toward Shannon, along with his seduction only fuel the hatred that was already brewing inside Ms. Fellowes. The jealousy toward the man who stole Charlotte heart and the resentment toward her fragile relationship with Charlotte severely increases Ms. Fellowes’s detestation for the ex-reverend. She constantly criticized and mocked his unique situation and past actions by calling him “Reverend Defrocked” and rubbing his mistakes in his face, “Because you what couldn’t keep your hands off innocent under-aged girls in your-”. The malicious taunting and critiquing continues throughout the