A Street Car Named Desire
In Tennessee Williams' play, "A Streetcar Named Desire", readers see Blanche DuBois' ability to separate herself from reality. Blanche goes to visit her sister Stella, her only living relative. She meets the "animal"(72) Stanley Kowalski. From the first time Stanley and Blanche meet she develops a strong dislike for the primitive being. Stanley has no problem showing that the feeling is mutual. Blanche's sugarcoated "lies"(118) simply fuel Stanley's anger. She forces her way into his life. Stanley's sees Blanche only as a leech that lives in his house and drinks "his liquor"(116). Ms DuBois hides behind her illusive dream world leaving herself open to grieve inappropriately, be constantly dependent, and be desperately defenseless in a world she can never fully understand. Blanche's life is incomplete without the presence of her husband. She blindly marries at a "quite young"(31) age. Her husband, Allan, is a perfect gentleman and she could only marry a gentlemen. Allan's sensitive and understanding. Even though he "wasn't like a man"(95), he is everything Blanche ever really wants. Blanche is truly in love for the first and only time in her life. Allan's perfect in every way through her eyes.
Blanche's character is unable to cope with death, she is constantly a dependent person, and she is defenseless to Stanley's attacks, which turn her character insane. Her dreams and fantasies are her only way to save her sanity. She lives a life lost in "lies"(118). Alcohol and promiscuity destroy her. The alcohol makes her forget her horrible past. The promiscuity temporarily "fill her (my) empty heart"(118) while she searches for a substitute for her dead husband. Insanity and reality can never coexist as in Blanche's case. She constantly searches to find a man to fill her empty life. Without a man in her life she turns to a life of promiscuity. She is in constant search for "Allan"(96)'s substitute. The thought that she "fails (failed) him in some mysterious way"(95). She turns to a life of one-night stands with strangers to "fill her (my) empty heart"(118). By reputation she starts to be known as a whore. She loses her job over an episode with a "seven-teen year old"(107) that reminds her of her dead husband. Her life is full of devastation and she turns to "drink"(105) alcohol while losing a grip on reality. She never finds a man to "fill her (my) empty heart"(118) left by her dead husband. She needs put herself back into reality but does not have the proper knowledge anymore. Her lifetime is full of devastation from the loss of her homosexual husband to her loss of her teaching career. Her "lies"(118) comfort her while putting her mind at ease. Through her mental downfall she still tries to keep her education, manners, and "appearance"(21). After she gets "kicked (her) out of that high school"(101) and g
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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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