Williams depicted reality and what it can do to people in The Pulitzer Prize winning play "A Streetcar

Named Desire". The story is about an unmarried thirty year old woman who creates a new magic reality

for herself to escape the cruelty and bitterness of the real world. She comes to New Orleans from a once

wealthy estate plagued with family death and eventually loses the estate 'Belle Reve' to unpaid mortgage.

She slowly comes to believe her fantasy world is the real world and eventually can't tell them apart any

longer. Her escapes from the real world are illustrated by her constructive compulsive mis-truths, fear of

being seen in well lit areas, frequent long baths and excessive drinking.

Blanche Dubois desires to escape her real life and to embrace upon the cushion of a magical

fantasy world which she creates for herself. One of the most prominent escapes is her drinking and the

large quantities of it. Blanche has a younger sister, Stella, who moved to New Orleans when the ordeals of

Belle Reve were getting out of hand "I stayed and struggled! You came to New Orleans and looked after

long and hot baths. What she claims to be doing is 'cooling her nerves' but she is trying to wash away her

it was brought into the light that she was in fact older and quite dependant upon being cared for and

anything was at night and sometimes on Sunday afternoon. Blanche refuses to be seen in well lit areas

appropriate song as the lyrics heard go "Say, it's only a paper moon, Sailing over a cardboard sea -But it

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