3.2.1 Allan’s Death Struggling between the illusion and harsh reality, Blanche’s displacement is a gradual process which includes her husband’s death. When Blanche was young, she loves Allan, a romantic poet, with all her heart. Up till her stay at Stella’s, She still calls Allan a boy. Williams has drawn a brief picture of his death, we can only infer from Blanche’s words that she is inextricably linked to Allan’s suicide. It’s never easy for Blanche to find out that Allan was a homosexual. In America, being a homosexual carries a stigma in those days. And it then drives Allan to suicide. After her husband’s funeral, her mind is incessantly haunted in the aftermath of his death. Her subliminal struggle to find a way out from such guilty nightmares, gradually turns her into physical sickness. …show more content…
Nevertheless, in the viewpoint of feminists, Blanche places her fortune on men and takes it for granted that men can bring her the absolute security. In the milieu of Alan’s death, she can not make herself out of the haze and subsequently is stranded in the Flamingo hotel. Under Williams’ pen, Blanche is in a way portrayed as a damsel in distress that is not merely a synonym for weakness, it works by ripping away the sensible voice from the character in A Streetcar Named Desire. On one hand, this trope is being used in a real world context where backward, sexist attitudes are already rampant. On the other hand, the trope is shown as incapable of escaping the predicament on her own, and then must wait for a savior to come and save her. This brings us to one of the core reasons why the trope is so problematic and pernicious for women’s representation(Zhangwei,2008:23). The best example is Blanche’s