Gertrudis 'Passion In' A Streetcar Named Desire

Gertrudis’s departure from the ranch symbolizes the wild abandon passion can bring on in life, the insanity it brings to some and shows to others, that life can be lost or claimed by our interpretation and application of it within us. “Their eyes met and what she saw in his made her tremble. She saw all the nights he had spent staring into the fire and longing to have a woman beside him, a woman he could kiss, a woman he could hold in his arms, a woman like her.” (Esquivel, Page 32). In the remark we can clearly see Gertrudis takes the emotion of passion straight to heart, she did not turn away in fear as many would; she let her mind run into a world of fantasy created with passion. She immediately began to have sinful, lustful thoughts of physical interaction, to the point of actually starting to sweat from thoughts alone. She allowed passion to consume her and emotionally start to physically change her …show more content…
“Without slowing his gallop, so as to not waste a moment, he leaned over, put his arm around her waist, and lifted her onto the horse in front of him, face to face, and carried her away” (Page 42). Her passion had called her lover to her, had demanded above all else he had to have her. Her passion burned so hot it had not only set his being aflame, it had actually caused physical fire around her and her to abandon her clothing and run free in the pleasure of it. Passion had broken the chains her current environment had placed upon her, chains that held all the others firmly in their safe little place. As she rode off into the horizon making love to the man of her desire, using the rhythmic gallop of the horse as a sensual metronome, those who viewed this event witnessed the power of