Character Analysis of Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams A Streetcar

Character Analysis of Blanche Through Text and Symbolism in A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams was once quoted as saying Symbols are slide fastener but the natural speech of drama...the purest language of plays (Adler 30). This is clearly evident in A Streetcar Named Desire, unrivaled of Williamss many plays. In analyzing the main division of the story, Blanche DuBois, it is crucial to use both the literal text as swell as the symbols of the story to bring about a complete and thorough discernment of her. Before one can empathise Blanches character, one must understand the reason why she moved to stark naked Orleans and joined her sister, Stella, and brother-in-law, Stanley. By analyzing the symbolism in the graduation scene, one can understand what prompted Blanche to move. Her air in the first scene suggests a moth (Williams 96). In literature, a moth represents the head. So it is possible to see her entire voyage as the journey of her soul (Quirino 63). Late r in the same scene she describes her voyage They told me to take a streetcar named Desire, and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at Elysian Fields (Quirino 63). Taken literally this does not seem to add much to the story. However, if one investigates Blanches past, one can sincerely yours understand what this quotation symbolizes. Blanche left her home to join her sister, because her life was a miser equal to(p) wreck in her former place of residence. She admits, at one point in the story, that after the death of Allan (her husband) intimacies with strangers was all I seemed able to fill my empty heart with (Williams 178). She had sexual relations with anyone who would agree to it. This is the first step in her voyage-Desire. She ... ...n. Boston Twayne, 1990. Corrigan, Mary Ann. Memory, Dream, and Myth in the Plays of Tennessee Williams. Dialogue in American Drama. Bloomington Indiana University Press, 1971. Engle, Paul. A Locomotive Named Reality, The newfound Republic, CXXXII (Jan. 24, 1955), 26, 27. Falk, Signi. Tennessee Williams. Grosset & Dunlap, Inc. New York, 1961. Jackson, Esther M. The Broken World of Tennessee Williams. Madison and Milwaukee University of Wisconsin, 1965. Quirino, Leonard. The Cards Indicate a Voyage on A Streetcar Named Desire. Modern Critical Interpretations A Streetcar Named Desire. Ed. Harold Bloom. Philadelphia Chelsea House, 1988. Vowles, Richard B. Tennessee Williams The World of His Imagery, Tulane Drama Review, III (Dec., 1958), 51-56. Williams, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire. New York Viking Penguin, 1976.