A Streetcar Named Desire Essay

In the story of A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams the main character Blanche Dubois tries to start new life, with her sister and new husband Stanley. But, she is constantly reminded of her haunting past. She feels as if the suicide of her first husband is her fault. Due to this constant guilt she cannot escape from, she drives herself mad. In Scene One Blanche blames the loss of her previous home in Belle Reve on her sister, Stella. After Stanley hearing of this incident he begins…

endeavors to start fresh in a place away from home. Through Blanche 's many failed attempts to wash away her soiled past, Tennessee Williams suggests that a person can never have a completely new start in life. Throughout Williams ' play A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche is constantly bathing and obsessing over cleanliness. She claims that a hot bath always gives her "a brand new outlook on life" (Williams 128; sc. 7). Bathing gives Blanche a temporary relief to a never ceasing ailment, her…

Blanche arrives in New Orleans after having lost her family's tobacco plantation, with nothing but a trunk of clothes and her sexual desire to call her own. When first arriving in New Orleans, her sister's husband Stanley attempts to treat Blanche as any gentleman would, however Blanche refuses to ablige by his rules, and as the plot of the play continues Stanley starts to take any power that Blanche has left, until she is empty of any and has become completely marginalized. Stanley contributes…

As the story progresses into scene 2, the need for more information about Blanche becomes necessary for both the reader and for Stanley to form an opinion about her. The two characters have already begun their power play, each with the goal of gaining the dominance and control over the narrative of Blanche’s past. It is in these scenes as more of Blanche’s past is discovered that the shift of the protagonist begins to happen. Stanley learns of Blanche’s association with the Flamingo Hotel in…

The book and movie of the play A Streetcar Named Desire are similar in a lot of ways, but also has some differences that impact the effect of the meaning of some scenes. However, what the author and director tells us in both formats is that life comes at you fast. The people that could be able to help during hard times are the ones to watch out for. Not everyone has the best intentions, even family. Some of the differences that are noticeable between the book and movie is curse words are taken…

A Streetcar Named Desire A Streetcar Named Desire is one of the most successful plays written by the celebrated American playwright Tennessee Williams. It was first performed in New York, New York on December 3, 1947 at the Barrymore Theatre. The setting of the play is in and around a corner building in New Orleans, Louisiana named Elysian Fields. The main characters are Blanche Dubois, a talkative and seemingly prim and proper lady; Stella Kowalski, the laid back and more casual younger…

Blanche’s Mental Health In the late 1940’s mental illness was a big thing. Some people didn’t know how to deal with it at the time, and some were just sent to mental hospitals for help. In Tennessee William 's, A Streetcar Named Desire, one of his main characters showed signs of a mental illness. Blanche Dubois is dealing with signs of a mental illness, that is from her traumatizing past. Blanche Dubois had a lot of things going on, this could be the reason why she acts like she does. After…

Both famous American plays Death of a Salesman and A Streetcar Named Desire can be efficiently compared based on their characters, settings, multiple themes , and many more common aspects. Along with differences there are great amounts of similarities that relate the plays each other. The settings of the plays assist in distributing demographic norms and significance in each play which lead them to be both compared and contrasted to one another. A suburban, poverty stricken neighborhood in New…

Blanche went to visit her sister, Stella, and her husband Stanley Kowalski, in New Orleans. There are several reason why Blanche went to visit Stella. One of the main reason was because the family property, Belle Reve, was lost. By going to New Orleans Blanche would stay with family and comfort herself because the family property that she was in charge of was lost. After arriving in New Orleans, Blanche was surprise on how different it was compared to Mississippi. Unlike Mississippi, people of…

was always perceived as mildly insane. He was able to know and understand things that he shouldn’t know. In “A Streetcar Named Desire,” by Tennessee Williams, Stella’s sister Blanche lied throughout the play in order to change the way she was perceived. She was also unable to keep her secrets and painful memories which led to her insanity. In As I Lay Dying and “A Streetcar Named Desire,” both Darl and Blanche’s levels of sanity decreased when they lost support from their family. Darl showed…