A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams's, A Streetcar Named Desire discusses the different stages of life in several different ways. He uses three main characters to demonstrate the obstacles in each of these fazes. The first character being Blanche she is cultivated; fantasy seeking, and a southern bell that has a hard time grasping reality. Ronald Hayman states that,"Blanche is a faded beauty who affects a greater gentility than she has ever had". (Hayman 101) She lives in her head and remembers situations the way she wanted them to happen. Stanley on the other hand lives life day to day, he is very realistic and compared to Blanche he is very primitive. Stanley is called a "different species" when described to Blanche by his wife Stella. Stella is the third character she is the navigator, the author uses her to calm the other characters when they are worried. Her focus is to please both characters by avoiding the truth. She does not tell Stanley how Belle Rive was lost......
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