Blanche Dubois Trauma

It is a melancholy, yet common reality when a person strives to overcome the darkness of her past, but falls short. Unfortunately, some people go through such an immense amount of trauma from which they cannot ever fully recover. Tennessee Williams uses this structure when he introduces one of the main characters, Blanche DuBois. Blanche is a very complex character. On the surface, she doesn’t seem like anything is wrong with her, but the deeper the reader looks at Blanche, they can see all of her internal issues. Williams brilliantly, later on in the novel, reveals the reasons why Blanche is the way she is. Blanche is a troubled individual who struggles her whole adulthood to rise above her chaotic and heartbreaking past life, but she cannot …show more content…
Williams was raised by his uptight and emotional mother who was very concerned with southern gentility. His father wasn’t around much due to having the occupation of a traveling salesman. One of his siblings, Rose, was diagnosed with schizophrenia and later on in life, his parents organized a lobotomy, the operation of cutting into a lobe, as of the brain or the lung, which left her entirely paralyzed (Banach). Like any normal person, this laid heavy on Williams heart and mind, so his emotional relief was writing novels. Williams was driven to a drug and alcohol problem during the course of his lifetime due to personal issues which is also one of Blanche’s many problems. Williams understands the cruel reality of mental illness and homosexuality, because he had experienced them first hand in his personal life (Banach). William’s and Blanche’s experiences are different, but their emotional state and their hardships are similar. He was frequently ill due to the emotionally draining hardships in his life like his family issues, which led to years of addiction to alcohol and sleeping pills (Augustyn). His relief was writing novels, although since he has seen so much darkness in his life, his novels are extremely