... portions of reality"(18). This is clear in Streetcar by Blanche's denial of certain acts of her past. She outright says, "I don't want realism I misrepresent things to [people]. I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be t! he truth"(145). Ultimately, Kernan finds realism to be a mode of acceptance by which people deal with what they normally could not handle. Another ... Blanche but she chooses to ignorantly disregard it. Tennessee Williams has a flair for writing about reality clashing with fantasy in some of his plays. In The Glass Menagerie, Laura's unrealistic grasp on life cla...

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