A Streetcar Named Desire Rhetorical Analysis

The tone is the element that brings the entire plot together, driving home the theme of the story by forcing the reader to digest the aspects of the story it amplifies. The voice of the story is overwhelmingly sympathetic in favor of Blanche, causing the audience to have pity on her even in times when they theoretically should not. When Blanche arrives at her sister’s residence, she comes across pretty distraught and nervous, seeming wracked by some horror or another, even saying outright that she couldn’t be alone because she wasn't very well while "her voice drops and her look is frightened” (Williams 17). Right off the bat, the audience is bound to feel sorry for her and even worried for her well-being, a sense of distress and even embarrassment sweeping over the audience just by the state that she entered the stage with and the overwhelming anxiety and pain that seems to swarm

With that comes the rise in drug use, both medical and recreational, as people become desperate and will do anything necessary to escape their lives, their reality, the holes they have dug themselves. Blanche DuBois, the main character in A Streetcar Named Desire, is the prime example of this predicament that has existed across generations, resulting to alcohol and the falsifying of her life story in order to escape the real world and instead live in her imagination. She managed to push her mind too far, creating a false persona that began to take over, disfiguring her ability to distinguish what was real and fake, pulling her down into a pit of permanent aberration. The author creatively establishes this theme of madness as a disconnect between reality and fantasy through a use of symbolism, allusion, and a tone that evokes sympathy towards the main character, even in times where the opposite is more