... seen clothed in a manner fit 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 ... dresses provides the reader with his first glimpse of a major conflict in the drama: the true reality of life versus created illusion. Tennessee Williams is famous for dressing his most degenerate characters ironically in all white, so this provides readers with another clue about Blanche. W...

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... 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 ... In A Streetcar Named Desire, there is a combination of raw reality and deliberate fantasy between Stanley Kowalski and Blanche DuBois (Riddel 24). Williams throughout Streetcar creates constant conflict between Blanche and either Stanley, Mitch, or Stella. The audience of the play, however, is presen...

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Deception and Illusion in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire Blanche DuBois succinctly summarizes herself and her vision of the world with two words: "I misrepresent."" (A Streetcar Named Desire, hereafter SND, p. 117 ). In fact, she misrepresents virtually everything ... for? Death is expensive, Miss Stella."" (SND, p. 27). The loss of the plantation, and the excuses Blanche makes to avoid responsibility are just the first part of her self-delusion. Tennessee Williams sets the symbolism early when Blanche arrives at Stella's home. Alice Griffin observes that "On one level Blanche'...

• Word Count: 2617
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School