A Streetcar Named Desire: Poem Analysis

The poem presents the distress of losing one’s dreams. It deals with the questions every person faces at least once in his or her life, when everything we have dreamed of disappears, and we do not know how to deal with that anxiety and with the abyss that opens in front of us after that. What to do when everything fails? What to do when you reach a moment in life you never thought about?
They are a lesbian couple. Theresa seems to be more aware of how society sees the kind of relationship they have, she seems to be more aware of the rejection they are going to suffer. However, Lorraine, though she does not seem to be so open regarding their relationship, is towards the end the only able to highlight that their relationship is like any other couple’s, that they are as normal as the rest of people. Theresa is stronger and seems to openly admit she is a lesbian, but Lorraine is the want who wants to be treated just as the rest of people, she wants people to treat her as she is treated in Ben’s basement: “That only place I’ve found some peace, Tee, is in that damp ugly basement, where I’m not different.” (165); she accepts she is a lesbian, but she knows that fact should not make a difference: “I’ve accepted it all my life, and it’s nothing I’m ashamed of – but it doesn’t make me any different from anyone else in the world.” (165)
Mattie is concerned about Lorraine and Theresa as people, equal as the rest of others despite their non-understood relationship, and related to this, she points out that their relationship is in fact not strange. By stating that “Maybe that’s why some women get so riled up about it, ‘cause they know deep down it’s not so different after all.” (141) Mattie may be reflecting about the possibility that every woman has special bonds with other women and that the lesbian couple’s relationship is not that