Wednesday, July 20, 2011

How does Blanche's world of illusion contrast from Stanley's world of reality in "A Streetcar named Desire?"

Blanche's world of illusions include gentlemen callers, rich and powerful men, genteel and Old South mannerisms, the beautiful Belle Reeve, and everything that encompassed her old self.


Stanley, on the other hand, was a brusque, harsh, and dirty man with rough manners, who would hit his wife, play poker with his cronies in drunken nights, and be the epitome of the horrible man that Blanche would have never dared to go near.


Their worlds clash because they are at extremes, and one (Stanley) is meant to overrule the other (Blanche) like reality smashes down fantasy.

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