Williams continues this theme of mental entrapment with one of his later plays, A Streetcar Named Desire. In like manner to The Glass Menagerie’s Laura, Blanche DuBois remains a prisoner of her own mind as she too cannot let go of her haunting past. Towards the middle of the book, readers learn of the main experience that causes Blanche’s problems when interacting with men. Her ex-husband, Allan Gray, commits suicide after being called disgusting by Blanche as a result from seeing him with another man. This underlying guilt instills itself deep within, even compelling her to keep the love letters he had once written to her. “Poems a dead boy wrote. I hurt him the way that you would like to hurt me, but you can’t! I’m not young and vulnerable
