Streecar Named Desire
A Streetcar Named Desire In Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire, the ideas behind being able to deal with death and desire play a crucial role in determining the author’s true intention for his play. ... One instance where Williams actually juxtaposes what the characters have to deal with, with their intended environment, occurs when Blanche, after just arriving on stage for the first time, says, “They told me to take a street-car named Desire, and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at—Elysian Fields” (15). This is an oddity that proves to be very important because it allows Williams to show that characters must be able to deal sanely with the “streetcars” of desire and cemetery (death) to end up at the final destination of happiness. ... Another reason for the happiness expressed by both Stella and Stanley is their mutual desire for each other. This is made most clear when Blanche tells Stella that she and Stanley share “brutal desire—just—Desire” (70), and Stella replies, “I have told you I love him” (71). ... Stanley hits Stella, but the fact that at heart they both love and desire each other overrides that and allows them to be happy with one another. ... Blanche’s desire for many men proves to be the focal point for her turn toward insanity, right before the reader’s eyes. ... This proves that Mitch, having ended his relationship with Blanche and thus his directed desire, has lost his feelings.