A Streetcar Named Desire Alcohol Analysis

Without delay, the subject of alcohol in Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire he illustrated this subject as refreshment, maintaining fictional reality and leading one onto the part of self-destruction. Stella sees alcohol mostly for a positive escape and as refreshment and to make a gathering and conversation more socially acquainted. “Blanche you sit down let me pour the drinks” (Williams 7) On the other hand, there is Blanche who perceives alcohol only as an escape from reality into her own little fictional world and also helped her forget about her tribulations. This alcohol abuse started because of the death of her late husband, Allan Grey and she feels somewhat responsible for it. Also, the many sexual adventures with countless strangers makes her feel less of herself so she is trying to full the chasm with alcohol. Throughout the play one can see that Blanche drinks by herself but when she is with company two is her max. “No I rarely touch it” (Williams 17). Correspondingly, when Blanche is in her own company she drinks a generous amount of liquor. “She rushes about frantically, hiding the bottle in a closet, crouching at the mirror and dabbing her face with cologne and
Secondly, he uses music to illustrate Blanche’s deteriorating sanity, her love for fiction, her despair, Stella and Stanley’s intense despondency. Thirdly, alcohol aided Tennessee in depicting how it brings people together, destroys them and helps others to seek and maintain shelter in their own warped mind. These three unique but simple symbols work effectively with the fragile Blanche, the adaptable Stella and the egotistical Stanley to conceive an authentic alluring