Escapism In A Streetcar Named Desire

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The story of a “Streetcar Named Desire,” focuses on the life of a sad woman and her very sad life. Blanche DuBois represents an overdramatic not so very innocent southern belle who deals on the depths of her despair after her marital scandal between her husband and another man, leading Blanche to become a widow. In other words, she’s washed up. Forced to leave her beautiful estate and rather scandalous life of a school teacher behind. She ends up in New Orleans perhaps hoping that her sister Stella and her husband Stanley will take care of her. Instead of finding her fairytale ending, Blanche only finds trouble at her sisters in the form of Stanley and in the form of her historic baggage. A well-known scene in the play occurs after a classic fight between Blanche and Stanley.…show more content…
He criticizes the escapism that springs from the despair and desperation. When this play first came to be, it was a time where audiences craved for simple, down to earth, cheerful plays. Being that World during War 2 had just ended. So when they attended the performance, they were shocked to find its high effect as a wakeup call much needed at the time. This play realistically shows relationships going on in society at the time. Blanche represents the old school traditions which separated racism and classes. Stanley and Stella represent the new class and culture. When Blanche shows up in this new town, she is full of prejudice about class, which is out of place where the story takes place and in direct contrast with her sister and husbands relationship. She shows denial, discouragement and despair throughout the whole performance and ends unresolved on her part. This story just justifies her descent into insanity. Williams proves his point that reality, not necessarily as it exists in the physical, but as it exists more in the
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