A Streetcar Named Desire Essay
Reality vs. Illusion
In Tennessee William's masterful play, A Streetcar Named Desire, the reader meets a middle aged woman by the name of Blanche DuBois. Blanche lives in her own faerie tale world, one of a young, beautiful debutante, surrounded by admirers, and loved by all whom she encounters. In reality, Blanche is an aging woman who cannot cope with the actualities of life. She makes up wild stories, and when Stanley Kowalski, her brother in law, rapes her, the realities of life cause her to drift into absolute lunacy.
Blanche appears at the apartment house where her sister, Stella, lives. She brings with her a trunk of fancy clothing, and a mind of dreams she believes are reality. As Stanley unravels Blanche's story, she makes up wilder and wilder claims, hoping to place her life back into her own hands. According to Blanche's story, in her hometown of Laurel, she had lived in the Hotel Flamingo after the plantation was lost.......
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