Streetcar Named Desire Themes

The main theme of A StreetCar Named Desire is that just wanting something to be true isn’t enough for it to be true. For example, Blanche tries her best to make it seem that she is still a southern bell however, with numerous sightings from different people, she was in Laurel Town for two weeks in a hotel called the Flamingo. By this, of course it means that she was not at her plantation until she went to New Orleans to visit Stella. Another example is that she always claims and wants to be beautiful and young however, she has the lights off or dim when Mitch or any other man, who believes she is young, is around. For instance, she buys lamp shades to put on all the lights yet, she claims that the lights are “ugly” however, we can assume that