A Street Car Name Desire compared to The Night of the Iguana
After studying A Streetcar Named Desire and The Night of the Iguana it is clear that Tennessee Williams seems to follow a central theme surrounding the topic of sexual desire in his plays. The theme of sexual desire is perhaps the most obvious existence in both of the plays.
To start off with, A Streetcar Named Desire is about a girl named Blanche Dubois. Blanche goes to New Orleans to visit her pregnant sister, Stella. Another character who is also there is Stella’s husband, Stanley. Blanche was struggling with her life so she decided to visit her sister until get becomes better. Blanche explains to Stella that the bank has taken their family’s plantation away. Stanley thinks something is fishy about what Blanche is telling Stella. He thinks she sold the land and took the money. Since Stanley thinks Blanche is lying he begins to snoop through her things and comes across a letter from Blanche’s dead ex-husband. Blanche’s husband committed suicide because Blanche found out he was gay and she didn’t support him. …show more content…
Blanche and Stella get home and Blanche meets Stanley’s friend, Mitch. Blanche starts to flirt with Mitch and later in the play they begin to date. Blanche has used her sexual appeal to get men throughout her whole life and continues to do so with Mitch. Stanley gets angry because they interrupted his poker night, which causes him to become violent. After Blanche sees how Stanley gets, she realizes that he isn’t good for her sister. In a conversation Blanche and Stella have about Stanley, Stella explains that she can’t describe what Mitch is like because she is so in love with him. This shows that Stella is completely blind to the fact that her and Stanley are totally different and that is why she has a hard time understanding why Blanche sees Stanley as an unhealthy husband for
After studying A Streetcar Named Desire and The Night of the Iguana it is clear that Tennessee Williams seems to follow a central theme surrounding the topic of sexual desire in his plays. The theme of sexual desire is perhaps the most obvious existence in both of the plays.
To start off with, A Streetcar Named Desire is about a girl named Blanche Dubois. Blanche goes to New Orleans to visit her pregnant sister, Stella. Another character who is also there is Stella’s husband, Stanley. Blanche was struggling with her life so she decided to visit her sister until get becomes better. Blanche explains to Stella that the bank has taken their family’s plantation away. Stanley thinks something is fishy about what Blanche is telling Stella. He thinks she sold the land and took the money. Since Stanley thinks Blanche is lying he begins to snoop through her things and comes across a letter from Blanche’s dead ex-husband. Blanche’s husband committed suicide because Blanche found out he was gay and she didn’t support him. …show more content…
Blanche and Stella get home and Blanche meets Stanley’s friend, Mitch. Blanche starts to flirt with Mitch and later in the play they begin to date. Blanche has used her sexual appeal to get men throughout her whole life and continues to do so with Mitch. Stanley gets angry because they interrupted his poker night, which causes him to become violent. After Blanche sees how Stanley gets, she realizes that he isn’t good for her sister. In a conversation Blanche and Stella have about Stanley, Stella explains that she can’t describe what Mitch is like because she is so in love with him. This shows that Stella is completely blind to the fact that her and Stanley are totally different and that is why she has a hard time understanding why Blanche sees Stanley as an unhealthy husband for