Streetcar Named Desire Themes

The main theme of A StreetCar Named Desire is that just wanting something to be true isn’t enough for it to be true. For example, Blanche tries her best to make it seem that she is still a southern bell however, with numerous sightings from different people, she was in Laurel Town for two weeks in a hotel called the Flamingo. By this, of course it means that she was not at her plantation until she went to New Orleans to visit Stella. Another example is that she always claims and wants to be beautiful and young however, she has the lights off or dim when Mitch or any other man, who believes she is young, is around. For instance, she buys lamp shades to put on all the lights yet, she claims that the lights are “ugly” however, we can assume that
she does this to hide that fact that she isn’t the young, pretty woman she believes she is. Finally, when Stanley tells Blanche that he has a friend who saw her in Laurel at a hotel called the Flamingo she replies “I’m afraid he does have me mixed up with this ‘other party.’ The Hotel Flamingo is not the sort of establishment I would dare be seen in!” This proves that even if the facs are right in front of her face, she still denies all the proof and hopes that they will believe her made up story. In Conclusion, these examples from the play show that, even if you try to hide the fact that you are not what you believe to be, the proof and facts will prove you wrong.