Easily playing with words, Americans say that Tennessee Williams is "one of the few lucky ones who built a huge success on Failure". And, without a doubt, Williams' works dramatize, mournfully, failure and the failed, dreams and disappointments, hopes and their vain expectation. However, this assertion overlooks another fundamental element of his work - an element that, in The Sweet Bird of Youth, persistently and agonizingly takes the leading role: the element of Time.