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A Streetcar Named Desire
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Tennessee Williams was once quoted as saying "Symbols are nothing
but the natural speech of drama...the purest language of plays" (Adler 30).
This is clearly evident in , one of Williams's many
plays. I n analyzing the main character of the sto .... Middle of Term Paper
... 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 seam to add much to the story. However, if
one investigate Blanche's 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 place of residence. She admits, at one
point in the story, that "after the death of Allan (her h usband)
intimacies with strangers was all I seemed able to fill my empty heart
with" (Williams, ... |
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