Tennessee Williams, renowned play write, showed a pattern of portraying the trials of life in his characters, as well as an innate desire to do well in every facet of their lives. It is not uncommon for unreasonable expectations to be cast on people, and it is these unreasonable expectations that force people to develop strategies for coping with these pressures and tensions (Billington 2016). We seek out habits that are unhealthy in order to supersede the unfortunate reality bestowed on us, in the hopes that they will rid of the suffering we experience. Williams’s notable works A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie provide us with main characters who embody this notion of reality displacement and denial. The character Amanda Wingfield from The Glass Menagerie as
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She also needed to have a nimble wit and a tongue to meet all occasions..” (Williams 1944). She once again delves into a realm that is anything but reality. Both characters in A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie fluctuate their own value and self-worth based upon how other men, even strangers, perceive them. They quite literally objectify themselves sexually and it can be a characterization of both of them in their fantasy worlds as well as reality. Wingfield and DuBois live in a consistent state of illusion, allowing an escape from their lives that they appear to dread, hence the reason for delusional behavior. They both seem to be content to relive their pasts rather than deal with the present. They are always seeking a man in their lives, and achievement of this allows them to believe they can return to the “normal” that they prefer to be in, the world they think they live in (Kellerman 2016). These characters systematically drive their loved ones crazy, eventually isolating themselves because everyone they know goes away at some point. These characters remain the same as time goes by, and the rest of the world passes them by. This
She also needed to have a nimble wit and a tongue to meet all occasions..” (Williams 1944). She once again delves into a realm that is anything but reality. Both characters in A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie fluctuate their own value and self-worth based upon how other men, even strangers, perceive them. They quite literally objectify themselves sexually and it can be a characterization of both of them in their fantasy worlds as well as reality. Wingfield and DuBois live in a consistent state of illusion, allowing an escape from their lives that they appear to dread, hence the reason for delusional behavior. They both seem to be content to relive their pasts rather than deal with the present. They are always seeking a man in their lives, and achievement of this allows them to believe they can return to the “normal” that they prefer to be in, the world they think they live in (Kellerman 2016). These characters systematically drive their loved ones crazy, eventually isolating themselves because everyone they know goes away at some point. These characters remain the same as time goes by, and the rest of the world passes them by. This