A Streetcar Named Desire

‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ by Tennessee Williams is my favourite play of all. This is because I like the plotline in the play as at the beginning of the play I didn’t know that Blanche will be the main character as my focus more on Stella and as the plot moves, I then realize that all the conflicts happen due to Blance’s behaviors.
Besides that the way the writer describes the characters is also interesting as such he uses animal imageries in portraying the characters. Those images do help me a lot in imagining and understanding the characters that involves. For example, from Stanley’s point of view, Blanche is described as ‘Tiger! Tiger!’ as she is portrayed as a person who tries to destroy other people. A tiger is an animal which kills and eats another mammal and same as Blanche who has been seen by Stanley as a person who will destroy his family but he will not let her to do so.
From all the characters, I sympathize with Blanche even though she has make mistake in her life. In my opinion, the reason why she goes to Stella is because she needs shelter and she didn’t trust anyone else anymore except her blood tie sister. She also wants someone to share her life with as she feels really tired to live as a prostitute.
In the play, there are times where she is trying to tell Stella about her past life but Stella is so naïve as she expects Blanche behaves the way she behaves. Stella is unaware of her sister’s condition. I think if she can be a little bit responsive she can safe her sister’s life. Stella also being ignorant to Blanche as at the end of play, she knew something bad has happened to her sister and it involves Stanley, but she didn’t have the guts to seek for the truth as she is afraid she will lose her happiness. In my opinion, Blanche is not deserved to be rape by Stanley even though she has slept with many men before. All in all, I do sympathize with Blanche because situation makes her to behave and life like that.