A Streetcar Named Desire Appearance Vs Reality Analysis
Reality Vs. Illusion
It is human nature for every person to have a vision of a perfect world and a perfect life. This imaginary world is exactly what Blanche DuBois has created for herself in A Streetcar Named Desire. In this story by Tennessee Williams the theme of reality vs. illusion plays a very vital role on the story and its characters. The fact that Blanche is so far wrapped in the illusion of what her world is has played a big role in misconstruing the reality of what her life has actually become. She tends to falsify her reality so that she does not have to accept what she has become. She is unwilling to accept the reality in the decline of her social status, the reality of her decline in physical attributes, and the reality of her past. All of these aspects eventually lead to her mental breakdown which eventually make her go to the asylum at the end of the story. First of all, Blanche's inability to accept the reality of her decline in social status is seen when she is forced to go live with her sister Stella in the Elysian Fields. She tells everyone that she left Laurel which is her illusion of what happened. …show more content…
She refuses to accept the reality of what has happened. Ever since the day that she caught her husband messing around with another man and he committed suicide, it started her mental breakdown. She seemed to blame herself for his suicide because she did not satisfy him. This illusion leads to her to sleep with many other random men at hotels and maker herself into a "tramp". And even though she was doing this she still had the illusion that she was a refined and respectable woman. When this information got to Mitch and he dumped her, it caused her to lose any illusion of hope for a new life and lead to her mental breakdown by actually having to accept the reality of what has happened and what was currently happening in her
It is human nature for every person to have a vision of a perfect world and a perfect life. This imaginary world is exactly what Blanche DuBois has created for herself in A Streetcar Named Desire. In this story by Tennessee Williams the theme of reality vs. illusion plays a very vital role on the story and its characters. The fact that Blanche is so far wrapped in the illusion of what her world is has played a big role in misconstruing the reality of what her life has actually become. She tends to falsify her reality so that she does not have to accept what she has become. She is unwilling to accept the reality in the decline of her social status, the reality of her decline in physical attributes, and the reality of her past. All of these aspects eventually lead to her mental breakdown which eventually make her go to the asylum at the end of the story. First of all, Blanche's inability to accept the reality of her decline in social status is seen when she is forced to go live with her sister Stella in the Elysian Fields. She tells everyone that she left Laurel which is her illusion of what happened. …show more content…
She refuses to accept the reality of what has happened. Ever since the day that she caught her husband messing around with another man and he committed suicide, it started her mental breakdown. She seemed to blame herself for his suicide because she did not satisfy him. This illusion leads to her to sleep with many other random men at hotels and maker herself into a "tramp". And even though she was doing this she still had the illusion that she was a refined and respectable woman. When this information got to Mitch and he dumped her, it caused her to lose any illusion of hope for a new life and lead to her mental breakdown by actually having to accept the reality of what has happened and what was currently happening in her