Regarded as not just different but downright loco-nuts." (Williams, Scene 7, pg
Unfortunately, because Blanche's initial rejection is based on sex and sexual preference, Blanche begins to use sex in order to attempt to determine her identity as a woman, which ends up getting out of control. Blanche admits that self-control has never been one of her strong suits, an eerie confession as Blanche's inability to control what she does and what she says ultimately leads to her complete demise (Williams 10)
Written during an uncertain time for American relations abroad, after the cessation of hostilities in WWI, and just as the devastation of the Great Depression was beginning to become endemic, Hemingway's grievously wounded writer Harry represents what many at the time believed to be America's failed potential. Brimming with talent and ambition, but bound by his inherent laziness and apathy, the dying Harry provides a telling condemnation of his own existence, admitting that "he had destroyed his talent by not using it, by betrayals of himself and what he believed in, by drinking so much that he blunted the edge of his perceptions, by laziness, by sloth, and by snobbery, by pride and by prejudice, by hook and by crook" (Hemingway, 1938)
Her book The Feminine Mystique essentially sparked the Feminist Movement. She claimed "that she came to political consciousness out of a disillusionment with her life as a suburban housewife" (Horowitz 2)
In doing so, she travels via the Desire, which serves as both the name of the streetcar in New Orleans and as an ironic symbol of that which she does not possess: fulfillment. Blanche is an unsatisfied woman, in part because she refuses to see herself for what she is -- a semi-depraved human no different from Stanley, desperately in need of saving (or as she herself puts it: "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers") (Williams 123)
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Blanche DuBois . The first time I got laid my eyes on her told the story I thought to myself, "That man is my executioner!" Some things are not forgivable.