... for a high-society afternoon tea, her dress starkly contrasts with the part of town in which she arrives. Tennessee Williams describes her appearance as "incongruous- to the setting of the play (Scene 5). She is dressed completely in white, a symbol of innocence and purity. Yet the drama occurs at Elysian Fields, a low-class section of the French Quarter in New Orleans. Blanche is portrayed as delicate, sensitive ... , while her surroundings are dirty, run-down, and anything but sophisticated. The contrast between the settings of the play Gordon 2 and manner in which Blanche dresses prov...

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• Grade Level: High School

... fantasy world against Stanley, she sees his rape attempt as at first playful, instead of his raw, animalistic want for sex. Reality puts a constant pressure on 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 clashes with Tom's ability ... to function in the "real" world. In A Streetcar Named Desire, there is a combination of raw reality and deliberate fantasy between Stanley Kowalski and Blanche DuBois ... men to no avail - sh...

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• Grade Level: High School