Robert Frost and Tennessee Williams explore similar concepts

Williams play “A Streetcar Named Desire” explore similar ideas and concepts to one

another only both vary in how the message is received by the audience due to the

form in which the texts are written.Frost’s poetry and William’s play both explore the

choices we are faced with, the barriers we put up between people and how our

decisions ultimately affect our future.

A Streetcar Named Desire tells the story of Blanche Dubois’s arrival to stay with her

sister Stella Kowalski who claims to be given a leave of absense from her teaching

job to recover from her nervous breakdown. Blanche disapproves of her sister’s

current station in life and believes she could do much better than Stanley. The central

conflict of the play is the emotional tug of war between the raw, brute, sensulautity of

Stanley and the fragile, crumbling gentility of Blanche. Blanche, during her stay finds

male company with Stanley’s friend, Mitch. But Blanche’s past catches up with her

and her lies and deceit are found out by all and her relationship with Mitch soon ends.

The last straw for Blanche is when Stanley rapes her while Stella is in hospital hav

audience can understand and sympathise with that personal vision. In the play, many

outlying ideas of that in the play. We can see in both texts the complexity of barriers

over hears Blanche badmouthing him in his own house creates a wall between these

reflected in the sloping telegraph poles and the neon lights surrounding the ornate but

Blanche in scene 10 is blared out by the “hot trumpet drum from the four deuces.”

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