A Street Car Named Desire Critical Analysis

At the age of 16, Tom published a story for the first time. It was in response to the question, “Can a Good Wife be a Good Sport?” He took third place in the contest and won 5 dollars. In 1937, his first play, Cairo, Shanghai, Bombay, was produced in Memphis. After writing a series of other plays that weren’t so successful, he hit it big with The Glass Menagerie. This play was originally called “The Gentleman Caller”, and was turned down as a screenplay. He was 34 when he wrote it.  In 1948, Williams wrote A Streetcar Named Desire, perhaps his best known play. This play earned him his first Pulitzer Prize. He earned his second Pulitzer in 1955, with Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Cash).

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) was born in Mississippi but moved to New Orleans at the age of 28, there he found the inspiration for his play A Streetcar Named Desire. The play is set in New Orleans and cooperates the vibe of the setting particularly through music. Williams uses vivid music in this play which heightens its themes such as madness and social differences.

    Tennessee Williams is one the major writers of the mid-twentieth century. His work includes the plays, The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire. One theme of The Glass Menagerie is that hopeful aspirations are followed by inevitable disappointments. This theme is common throughout all of Williams' work and throughout his own life as well. It is shown through the use of symbols and characters.

Tennessee Williams is regarded as a pioneering playwright of American theatre. Through his plays, Williams addresses important issues that no other writers of his time were willing to discuss, including addiction, substance abuse, and mental illness. Recurring themes in William’s works include the dysfunctional family, obsessive and absent mothers and fathers, and emotionally damaged women. These characters were inspired by his experiences with his own family. These characters appear repeatedly in his works with their own recurring themes. Through The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams presents the similar thematic elements of illusion, escape, and fragility between the two plays, proving that although similar, the themes within these plays are not simply recycled, as the differences in their respective texts highlight the differences of the human condition.

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Tennessee Williams, born Thomas Lanier Williams, wrote The Glass Menagerie, a play which premiered in Chicago in 1944. This award winning play, autobiographical in nature, represented a time in which Williams felt the obligation of his responsibilities in regards to the care of his family. Robert DiYanni, Adjunct Professor of Humanities at New York University, rated it as, “One of his best-loved plays...a portrayal of loneliness among characters who confuse fantasy and reality” (DiYanni 1156). Alternatively, The Glass Menagerie, a play set in the era of the Great Depression and written from the narrator’s memory, was meant to teach us the how our relationships with one another can alter our futures, for better or worse. Everything about this particular play was a direct and clear symbolization of Williams ' life growing up. Williams uses characterization to depict several people from his real life in this play; his sister, himself, his overbearing mother, absent father, and a childhood best friend. Williams does a splendid job transforming his personal life into a working piece of art. In Tennessee Williams ' play, The Glass Menagerie, his character, Laura, is central to the structure and focus of the story due to her individual ties to all of the supporting characters throughout the seven scene play.

Throughout Tennessee Williams’s play, “A Streetcar Named Desire” one can learn a large portion about his personal life. In the play the character, Blanche has a mental illness the same as his sister Rose had in her lifetime. Blanche’s ex-husband was also homosexual and he made the point to say that he left her for a man and Williams himself was also a homosexual. Tennessee chose for the story to be based in New Orleans, which was a crumbling town at the time and Williams was living a crumbling life, due to he was battling depression. In his plays a reader can see that he has different views than most men of his time, he developed many of these views due to his travels throughout his life. ““Streetcar” tackled themes of desperation, sexual

Tennessee Williams was an American writer known for short stories and poems in the mid 1950’s. His more famous writing was A Streetcar Named Desire. His writings influenced many other writers such as August Strindberg and Hart Crane. His writings A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie was adopted to films and A Streetcar Named Desire earned him his first Pulitzer prize. In A Streetcar Named Desire there is many elements that build the plot and story line. The story is about a girl who is drove crazy by his sister’s husband and eventually sent to the mental hospital. The main plot is towards the end of the story when Blanche Dubois is blackmailed by her sister’s husband and raped by him. Everything takes its toll on her until she begins drinking heavily and is thought to have gone crazy and placed in a mental hospital. In this story, many things play affect in the contrast of the writing such as Blanche arriving at her sister’s house, seeing her sister’s husbands attitude, the poker game, Blanche getting raped. These events make Blanche an easy victim. In Tennessee Williams, a street car named desire, the start of kindness turns to tragedy and pain.

Tennessee Williams was a well known Modern English playwright. He was born in Columbus, Mississippi and moved to St. Louis, then to Memphis, and later graduated from the University of Iowa in 1983. Williams began to turn his short stories into plays and later on into films. His wildest audiences were in contemporary dramatic literature. Williams’s plays have been produced in England, France, Hally, Germany, Greece, Austria, Switzerland, Holland, Poland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, Cuba and Mexico. One of William’s most intriguing plays is Streetcar named Desire. Streetcar was produced around 1947. The “setting of Streetcar” is a combination of raw realism and deliberate fantasy” (Riddel 16). The main character of the play is Ms.

Games have been a favorite pastime dating back to the Greek’s Olympic and Roman Gladiators. Stud, a seven card Poker game has been admired throughout the world. Played for the social aspect and because it is fun. It is a game of theatrical strategies, illusion, and has the element of chance that can lead to progressive uncertain outcomes. Every player that plays the game must play ultimately the hand they are dealt. Men and women have been playing such a social game of sexual politics for centuries. In the Play called, “A Street Car Named Desire” written by Tennessee Williams. Blanche DuBois the sister of Stella Kowalski arrives unexpectedly, which upsets the aesthetics beauty and spirit of life that Stella and Stanley Kowalski presently live in as husband and wife. A real game of chance which contain the hidden meaning about the charters and play as well. Using Von Gogh, “The Night Café” symbolic of colors, and abstract and allusive objects directs the outcome of four players that dominate the human social interaction in the play, which is played much like Poker. Every player is dealt a hand that only they can play to determine their outcome in this life. The main two player Blanche and Stanley showdown forcing the play of each other hands of poker. Turning into a

After reading “Streetcar Named Desire” by Tenessee Williams, I decided to write a book review geared towards adult readers. Through this review I wanted to show my understandings of the play, and stating how intrigued it kept me. Book review is the ideal type of text where the author is able to express freely his opinion about the play. People that are looking for recommendations often read book reviews about it. My aim was to highlight the reason why this play is a masterpiece and inquire the author’s writing style. The battle between genres was constant throughout the play, and made the reader empathize with certain characters depending on your own sex. The ending of the novel is all about brutal and tragic irony. I was continually desiring

Compare how the authors of Death of a salesman and “street car named desire explore the conflict between truth and illusion

The automobile has had a tremendous impact on society and the environment since its development in the beginning of the 20th century. Today, there are over 500 million motor vehicles on the earth. The automobile's efficiency, style, and performance have changed over the years, but there is one thing that has not - the pollution the automobile generates. Because of the pollution, people find themselves asking whether this technology has helped our society or hurt it. Should the consequences of the automobile be cause to eliminate it? Or should science develop technology to eliminate the pollution caused by the car?

Overall the true winner of A Streetcar Named Desire is sex. Desire is directly linked to sex and its irradiating out of the play as a whole. It shows how even though we dance, fight and tease death it never wins. We as humans are constantly chasing a high which many vices fill one of them being sex. Though this high is never permeant we tell ourselves that it is going to be for us. We conform ourselves in a blanket of lies that sex will always be warming. While death gives a release that can be warming it is not the blanket we choose. We want what warms us up, not the cold hard truth that we are used

Tennessee Williams, “A Street Car Named Desire”, brings his readers in with the life and antics of one Blanche Dubois. Her promiscuous attitude toward life and men makes you dislike her one minute, but feels so sorry for her the next. Williams allows this character to be pushed to the brink by her brutal brother-in-law and finally push her over the edge. This play left me feeling angry and outraged; the law had been broken, yet the victim will be the one who pays for the crime. The entire play leaves the audience waiting for the climatic point when either Blanche of Stanley will win the affections of Stella. I gained knowledge and understanding of human emotions and how human nature may cope with tragedy, and I was not enchanted by the play. I did experience a sense of shock and frustration by the ending, and the recognition of Blanche’s behaviors does hit a little close to home with my family and dealing with mental illness.