Character Analysis: A Streetcar Named Desire
Reality VS Fantasy In the play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, the motif of reality vs fantasy is used alot throughout the play. The fantasy part of this motif can be seen especially through Blanche, one of the characters. Blanche believes she is a young, beautiful and intelligent women but in reality she is not. Another fantasy seen in the play can be seen through the other characters because they hide from reality by acting as if some events did not happen. When the men would get violent with the women, after a few minutes of crying the women would return to the men as if nothing happened. The reality part of the play can be seen through another character named Stanley. When Stanley tries to uncover Blanche and the
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When Blanche was talking to Eunice, Blanche said “ They told me to take a street-car named Desire, and then transfer to one called Cameteries and ride six blocksand get off at- Elysian Feilds”(I.I.6). What Blanche did not realize is that she was walking directly to the death of her fantasy world. She did not realize that her “fantasy world” would end their. Blanche came with desire to find a man that had money and that would love her but at the end of the play that life that she wanted died. When Stanley asked Blanche if it was alright for him to take his shirt of, Blanche responsed by saying “ It’s mine, too. It’s hard to stay looking fresh. I haven’t washed or even powdered my face and- here you are! (Williams26). This quote helps with the reality VS fantasy because Blanche thinks she is this young women that needs to look good for men. She is willing to flirt with anyone even if it is her brother-in-law. In scene 2 when Blanche and Stanley were arguing about Belle Reve, Stanley touched all the important poems in which Blanche responded by saying “Now you have touched them I’ll burn them!”(Williams.42). When Stanley touched the papers, it was in a way bringing Blanche to reality. Blanche had kept the poems that her dead husband had wrote to her so she can hold on to the world she use to live in. By Stanley touching them, it was his way of making her memories go away and for her to come back to
When Blanche was talking to Eunice, Blanche said “ They told me to take a street-car named Desire, and then transfer to one called Cameteries and ride six blocksand get off at- Elysian Feilds”(I.I.6). What Blanche did not realize is that she was walking directly to the death of her fantasy world. She did not realize that her “fantasy world” would end their. Blanche came with desire to find a man that had money and that would love her but at the end of the play that life that she wanted died. When Stanley asked Blanche if it was alright for him to take his shirt of, Blanche responsed by saying “ It’s mine, too. It’s hard to stay looking fresh. I haven’t washed or even powdered my face and- here you are! (Williams26). This quote helps with the reality VS fantasy because Blanche thinks she is this young women that needs to look good for men. She is willing to flirt with anyone even if it is her brother-in-law. In scene 2 when Blanche and Stanley were arguing about Belle Reve, Stanley touched all the important poems in which Blanche responded by saying “Now you have touched them I’ll burn them!”(Williams.42). When Stanley touched the papers, it was in a way bringing Blanche to reality. Blanche had kept the poems that her dead husband had wrote to her so she can hold on to the world she use to live in. By Stanley touching them, it was his way of making her memories go away and for her to come back to