What Is Candy Delaney's Treatment Of Women

“Love (not desire) influences bonding and feelings of warmth and closeness in relationships”(Cavanaugh, 659). Every human seeks love. However, what should do an individual who undergoes through discrepancy of own feelings and appearance? In the play And Tell Sad Stories of The Deaths of Queen, Tennessee Williams depicts a young man who was falling in love with the same sex individuals. The protagonist had to choose between a socially accepted life of a desperate man and a life of accepting herself with constant disdain from the general public. Candy Delaney, a protagonist, was a member of LGBT community decided to accept herself. Williams stated that each individual decided what was more important social norms or own desire. Author depicted
In other words, because of the unconscious desires people keep making the same choice. Delaney remembered the times when Korngold had cheated on his wife, the mother of his two kids. “People follow set patterns. Over and over” (Williams, 400). Just as he cheated on his previous wife, Sidney Korngold cheated on her, Candy Delaney. He preferred young; when his first wife could no longer satisfy his definition of young, he found a mistress. When mistress, Delaney, did not fit into that definition either, Korngold found a substitute for her as well. “He let a good thing go for one that’s basically rotten. Just younger…” (Williams, 398). It is more likely that on unconscious level she already knew that he was cheating, but defending mechanism of denial let her to postpone the conflict. Defense mechanism is an attempt to satisfy id (wishes) and superego (censor) by mixing the reality and self-deception (Bressler). Delaney regretted that she had spent her best years with Korngold who did not appreciate living with her. Through Delaney’s sorrow reader can imply that she regrets her decision to trust this man made when she was still