"Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams

Going... Going... Gone
Throughout the course of Tennessee William's play, A Streetcar Named Desire, the character Blanche DuBois goes from being slightly mentally disturbed, to, by the end of the play, utterly mentally destroyed. Blanche DuBois goes through several changes throughout the play; most of them concentrate upon her relationship with other characters. But also, Blanche suffers her own change, an ever-growing slide into outright mental collapse. As Williams shows the change which happens to Blanche is something which can happen anywhere in society, a societal ill, and yet which society choose to ignore or to throw away because of societies inability to cope with the growing burden. In any case, Blanche DuBois goes through both extroverted and introverted changes through the play, A Streetcar Named Desire.
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