Summary: A Streetcar Named Desire By Tennessee Williams

In any form of fiction writing there is alway a bit of truth and imagination woven together to create a work of art that enthrals the adiunce. In Tennessee Williams 1947 play "A streetcar named desire", he has created a world were you actually see what can happen to a person when they choose to live in the illusions of their own making when they can no longer handle their situation in reality.

In a Streetcar named desire, Blanche recreates and raps herself in her own delustions, because she can not face what she has become or her past actions, but in doing so her past litterly hounts her, through her brother in law and voices in her head, to make her deal her own tragic past and present reality.

Through out the play Tennessy Williams lets

Where there is illusion there will always be a bit of reality and when those around you see that you are not seaming to live in the "real world" they tend to try to force you to see the truth of the situation wheather you are ready for it or not. Living in a fantasy world to escape your past will never let you fully let go of it or come to terms with it. The past and reality will find a way to show its true self and its up to you to face it or loose control. Stanley sees Blanche for who she truley is and strives to prove it to everyone around him. In Scene 7, page 98 Stanley finnaly confronts Stella about Blanche's past and her deceipt to everyone on the kind of person she truly is. He lists of the lies Blanch has spread about her job, what her real reputasion was in the town of Laurel, and how she acts and wants people to pecive her as prim and proper but she isn't in the

Anger over being felt used. After learning the true Stanley and Mitch both confront Blanche which is the start to her mental brake down. Every time Blanche was questions or confronted of her past, she would have flash backs which she would continuely try to repress, which seamed to start to take its tole mentaly. But as I mentioned before when you are cought not living in the "real world" there are consiquenses to living in illusion and trying to ignore reality. Though when a person isn't ready to deal with their situation and can no longer live in illusions of their own making or to have people belive their own self-perseptions, there mind can crack and go within themselfs to hide from the harsh light of reality. And when ones mind cracks no truely have no more proper grasp on reality, you now are living in your own mind with your hopefull imaginings and the past you wished to bury.

The creater of the play shows a keen understanding of living with and through a home filled with deceipt, illusion, mental illness, fear, insecurities, and having someone living in their own fantasies. He show that no matter how hard you try to repress your past, if you don't except it, live with it, and move on, it will hount you until you face it our it faces you.

In "A Streetcar Named Desire" Blanche can not face what she has become, her past actions, or her present reality, with her past litterly hounting her, through her brother in