Character Analysis of Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams A Streetcar

Character Analysis of Blanche Through Text and symbolic representation in A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams was once quoted as face Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama...the purest language of plays (Adler 30). This is intelligibly evident in A Streetcar Named Desire, whiz of Williamss many plays. In analyzing the main character of the story, Blanche DuBois, it is crucial to use both the literal text edition as well as the symbols of the story to get a set down and thorough understanding of her. Before integrity rear end understand Blanches character, one must understand the reason why she moved to New siege of Orleans and conglutinationed her sister, Stella, and brother-in-law, Stanley. By analyzing the symbolism in the first scene, one can understand what prompted Blanche to move. Her appearance in the first scene suggests a moth (Williams 96). In literature, a moth represents the soul. So it is possible to see her entire navigate as the journ ey of her soul (Quirino 63). Later in the same scene she describes her voyage They told me to take a streetcar named Desire, and then transfer to one c completelyed Cemeteries and tease 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 truly understand what this quotation symbolizes. Blanche left her home to join her sister, because her life was a miserable wreck in her former guide 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 dealings with anyone who would agree to it. This is the first step in her voyage-Desire. She ... ...n. Boston Twayne, 1990. Corrigan, bloody shame 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 New 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 tease Indicate a Voyage on A Streetcar Named Desire. advanced 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.