A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee and Fitzgerald are very visual in their descriptions, explicitly focusing on colour, yet also pay attention to the sound, where colour and music play an important role in both The Great Gatsby and A Streetcar Named Desire. Fitzgerald uses bright shocks of colour, which cleverly contrasts with purposed vagueness of the characters. Green is closely associated with the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock, symbolizing Gatsby’s deep love to Daisy and the American Dream. The manner this…

toward the academic performance.” This means that people who are raised in the lower class have less money, and therefor get a worse education than those in the U.S. upper class. This divide in education furthers the social divide, as seen in A Streetcar Named Desire, The Catcher in the Rye, and In Cold Blood. This separation of the social classes makes people feel alienated, as if they aren’t good enough to fit into society, dividing the American people and fueling the anger and hatred burning…

Darkness and light have been used as symbols for thousands of years. When someone is "in the spotlight" they want to be seen. They want everyone to know everything about them. More often than not, being in that spotlight involves chasing a dream. Spotlight is often associated with celebrities or rising stars who are in the spotlight, chasing a dream. They follow wherever the light may take them to discover their dreams. It 's blinding. Blinding light can also be associated with a certain…

Street Car Named Desire is 1951 drama film, a modification of Tennessee William’s 1947 play with the same name. It’s a story of Blanche Dubois, who after several courses of social ups and downs, tries to find her sage with her sister and brother-in-law living at a low income apartment building in New Orleans. But ultimately, she fails to build an emotional stability for herself. This script is a perfect sequence of tragedy full of emotions and drama comprised of violence, witty and poetic…

going through the contents of our book and one story caught my eye, Sexy by Jhumpa Lahiri, I turned to the page the story started on and began to read. The story wasted no time getting someplace interesting, in the first page alone our heroine, who is named Miranda hears the story of a “wife’s worst nightmare”. She listens as one of her coworkers tells how her cousin’s husband had left her, he had found a new woman while flying back from a business meeting…

God Janie (the main character) went through many rocky and abusive relationships to find true love. During these relationships she was forced to do what her husband said and she was treated like an object not a person. In the play A Streetcar Named Desire two sisters named Blanche and Stella also had to deal with abuse. The abuser was Stanley Stella’s husband. Stanley abused each woman in different way, which caused each sister to react differently. In Their Eyes Were Watching God the role of…

representations of human nature. While each individual is entitled to their own interpretation as to what human nature is, many classic American works convey a common theme. These classic works are: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, and A Separate Peace by John Knowles. It is apparent in American literature that human nature is driven by the egotistical need to control a given situation, therefore, dominating human relationships. The…

We are truly an amalgamation of our prior life experiences and the community into which we are integrated. And even before we are born, we are subjected to a complex and continuous cycle of socialization which holds responsibility for the way we think, act and even perceive ourselves and others. But what exactly is socialization? According to the powerful and thought-provoking article, The Cycle of Socialization by Bobbie Harro, Socialization is the natural process by which we acquire our social…

Sometimes opposites do not attract. In "A streetcar named desire", Blanche and Mitch strive for love, while they are antithetical with their closest companion. Most people find happiness off of affection from others. In the play, Blanche wants a relationship and love. This can be shown in, "You said you needed somebody. Well, I needed somebody, too. I thanked God for you..." This shows how Blanche was expecting a relationship from Mitch. Blanche has a reputation of being a used, trashy…

world, or even to the person standing next to you. There is such a variety of interpretations of literature. Through reading “A Streetcar Named Desire”,“Hamlet”, and “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, the main theme that stuck out to me was that tough, emotional experiences can have an effect on characters’ minds in a vast number of ways. In the play “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams, the main character Blanche Dubois experiences an extensive amount of loss. Blanche loses her home,…