Film Review: A Streetcar Named Desire

The two texts of Enduring Love and A Streetcar named Desire show privilege of one way of perceiving the world over the other in their conclusions. Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love, shows favour of Joe’s scientific and rational view but also demonstrates that it is flawed. Similarly, Tennessee Williams shows that realism in inevitable but is not always desirable in the play A Streetcar Names Desire. Both texts explore explore the responses of their protagonists of a crisis with Ian McEwan’s post-modern novel Enduring Love showing the destruction of Joe Rose’s world following a hot air ballooning tragedy through his scientific perspective. While the southern-gothic play of A Streetcar Named Desire explores the perception of Blanche following life’s tragedies of the death of her husband. There are many similarities and differences within the text with Enduring Love’s Joe and A Streetcar Named Desire’s Stanley both representing the favoured perception of logic and reality, while characters such as Blanche and Jed expressing the less favourable perception of fantasy and delusion. Other characters of Clarissa and Stella, have their perception shaped by their emotional relationships that still result in unfavourable outcomes.

I watched this production on Thursday, March 9th, at 7:30 p.m. In this paper, I will address three topics of interest to me after seeing this play. My personal reaction to how seeing this play was different from watching movies, television, or videos, the major strengths and how this play is responding to life today.

During scene 1, Blanche shields herself from her weaknesses by creating an illusion which is able to counteract the repulsiveness of reality. For instance, she avoids the ‘merciless glare’ of the open light bulb so as not to reveal her physical imperfections. Blanche also refuses to acknowledge her problem with alcohol. Williams implies that she does not want to see things

This is the first night after Ethan comes back from picking up his wife’s cousin, Mattie. His wife, who is unfortunately ill, is going to go to another place outside of Starkfield for the day to try and get better and more promising treatment. Ethan however, doesn’t seem committed at all to his wife. The way the narrator of the book suggests it, is that Ethan seems to have a lot of interest in this girl Mattie, despite the fact that he is never quoted saying that specifically to Mattie. I think its foolish for Ethan to jeopardize his whole relationship, especially when his wife, Zeena, needs his support the most. The part thats even more ridiculous, is that its his wife’s cousin, who’s been helping around the house for some time now. This scene

When Blanche gets to New Orleans, she decides that she must keep others unaware of her struggles and pretend she is on vacation so nobody would think less of her, and she would not have to face the consequences of the truth of her situation. She continuously has baths so no one would see her dirty or tired, and she believes she is too old and uses the darkness to shield herself. In this passage, the truth finally comes out. She reveals that she misleads people because she wants to give them magic, instead of difficult, or even

The heiress knew that her father had some dirty little secrets, but she’d never imagined the depths of depravity that he would sink to. Paying $50,000 for the opportunity to fuck a teenager seemed extreme even to her sometimes excessive taste, and Lexi could only shake her head in disbelief when her lover repeated the sum again. She didn’t know what sort of girl would agree to a deal like that, blissfully unaware that Adam Levine had orchestrated the entire thing and was stringing Sophia Scott along like an eager puppy on a leash. She didn’t know that the photographer had promised the young co-ed fame and fortune as she slid down the slippery slope of depravity, and she didn’t know that he would be happy to see the same happen to her.

Short stories form a different way of writing. Like all other type of literary genres, short stories are created with a distinct message, but a much more powerful one that is convey in such fewer pages. They convey a meaning and message that hits the reader in a profound yet questionable way that leaves the reader, sometimes, confused. Short stories allow for a conversation, an argument, and/or a thought as to what is actually being conveyed. The message is not always directly expressed, but sometimes conveyed in such a way that the reader must figure it out. A great example of such writing is Balthazar's Marvelous Afternoon, written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

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

The reality, neither adopts a way of intrigue and nor urge for its approval. It is itself a great power.

Twentieth Century is the most complex era of the United States History. In this era lots of changes were taking place in America; Industrial development, railroad network, cheap labor, mass production, and more. Standard of living started improving with a focus on education and healthcare. People started paying more attention to family life. However, among all these developments; racial, ethnic, and gender discrimination was still predominant. Through these literary works; Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire and Kerouac’s The Subterraneans, both written in the same era but the former is set a decade earlier than the later, we enhance our understanding of the diversity and complexity of mid-twentieth century America.

Blanches fantasy world is a great cover up for the initial part of the play. It allows her to feel safe and protected from the truth and people are believing what she is saying as the lies are so convincing and believable. The playwright shows the gradual decrease of effectiveness of her lies throughout and shows that the people around her are starting to see that she is lying about a lot of things. This also leads to her placement in a mental institution as the lies that’re being said are so realistic that she starts to believe them herself. This is known today as pathological lying. All of the lies caused Blanche to enter an altered mental state. This mental state then caused her to carry out all of the actions that were mentioned earlier. The fantasy world was only a temporary way of helping Blanche, it was never going to last very long. If the lies had continued, it could have gotten her into a lot more trouble later on so the mental institution saved her by stopping the lies once and for all. She did face problems due to her lies when she got raped. When she tried telling people about what had happened, no one believed her as they thought she was crazy and she was known for making up lies. This was a big issue as something legitimately bad had happened and she had made a bad reputation for herself and no one seemed to care about

Once upon a time, Jimmy and Freddy were walking through their families’ farm in Tennessee. While they were walking, the boys noticed a disagreeable skunk-like smell. They looked at each other with confusion, and starting looking around. Jimmy checked the bottom of his shoes and Freddy sniffed himself. Freddy looked down to his shoes and noticed a purple plant that was about 2 feet tall. He asked Jimmy, “HEY! What’s that?” Jimmy replied, “I have no idea! Let’s take it home and find out, Detective Freddy!”

The play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams examines the theme of both death and desire. Williams presents the only options of life as being one of these two options. Either you choose to figuratively die or you succumb to your desires. You must make to choice and life and battle death and go towards desire. These themes are antitheses of one another and are often times intertwined together. Williams uses the characters actions and thoughts as well as contrasts between them to develop this central theme.

Stella slowly opened her eyes to her family and some of her friends from her dance company. Confused and not knowing where she was, she began to sit up. As she looked around the room, she saw lots of complicated equipment and the room smelled strongly of chemicals. Suddenly, a wave of tiredness washed over her and she quickly lay back down on the uncomfortable mattress. Stella felt each part of her body get heavy and she felt as if she couldn’t move. Finally, she built up the strength to ask,

Stanley Kowalski rebels against society by sticking his nose in other people’s business and then uses that information a means to an end to get his sister-in-law out of his life; committing a felony and act of infidelity in the process.