The Fading Light
The play A Streetcar Named Desire written by playwright Tennessee Williams intertwines with the life of Blanche DuBois. The main theme of the dramatic play mostly concerns that of Blanche, and the upmost tragedy. Blanche is seen as a woman stuck in a tragedy and living two identities between two different worlds. Blanche is feigning between the two very different worlds, the one of the past, and the present. She is a lonely and frightened soul, who consoles her life around lies and men to fill her desire and her illusion of a “better life”. Desire continually fills the needs of Blanche, as it is a key and a barrier in her life. Desire is used by Blanche to attain love and comfort, but is also used as demise and blocks that …show more content…
A man is needed in both of these leading ladies lives, as men fill the void within themselves. Daisy and Blanche both symbolize the efforts of purity. Blanche, when she first appears in the play “ is daintily dressed in a white suit with a fluffy bodice, necklace, and earrings of pearl, white gloves and hat,”(1.5) suggesting that she is of a pristine figure and pure. Daisy is also seen throughout The Great Gatsby, in pale pastel white colors. However, one of the major differences between these women is the difference on the appearance of light. Daisy enjoys a life in the light surrounded with wealth, and bright things filled with arousing potential, Blanche on the other hand is more like Gatsby, as they both in some ways hide from the light and live a fantasy in the past. Blanche prefers to live her life in the dark “I can’t stand a naked light bulb”(3.60), and continually shadows her throughout as it masks her true potential. Blanche has more to offer but hides in the light to avoid the revealing of her real troubled self and life that goes with it. Blanche and Gatsby both hide from bright light because it exposes both of their flaws and truth “ I’m fading now! I don’t know how much longer I can turn the trick”(5.92). Living a life in the past may have seemed like a good idea at the time, but over a serious of lies they start to build up, and later leaving your hopes in the dust with a trail of
The play A Streetcar Named Desire written by playwright Tennessee Williams intertwines with the life of Blanche DuBois. The main theme of the dramatic play mostly concerns that of Blanche, and the upmost tragedy. Blanche is seen as a woman stuck in a tragedy and living two identities between two different worlds. Blanche is feigning between the two very different worlds, the one of the past, and the present. She is a lonely and frightened soul, who consoles her life around lies and men to fill her desire and her illusion of a “better life”. Desire continually fills the needs of Blanche, as it is a key and a barrier in her life. Desire is used by Blanche to attain love and comfort, but is also used as demise and blocks that …show more content…
A man is needed in both of these leading ladies lives, as men fill the void within themselves. Daisy and Blanche both symbolize the efforts of purity. Blanche, when she first appears in the play “ is daintily dressed in a white suit with a fluffy bodice, necklace, and earrings of pearl, white gloves and hat,”(1.5) suggesting that she is of a pristine figure and pure. Daisy is also seen throughout The Great Gatsby, in pale pastel white colors. However, one of the major differences between these women is the difference on the appearance of light. Daisy enjoys a life in the light surrounded with wealth, and bright things filled with arousing potential, Blanche on the other hand is more like Gatsby, as they both in some ways hide from the light and live a fantasy in the past. Blanche prefers to live her life in the dark “I can’t stand a naked light bulb”(3.60), and continually shadows her throughout as it masks her true potential. Blanche has more to offer but hides in the light to avoid the revealing of her real troubled self and life that goes with it. Blanche and Gatsby both hide from bright light because it exposes both of their flaws and truth “ I’m fading now! I don’t know how much longer I can turn the trick”(5.92). Living a life in the past may have seemed like a good idea at the time, but over a serious of lies they start to build up, and later leaving your hopes in the dust with a trail of