A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
MITCH: Lies, lies, inside and out, all lies. Referring to the two
critical opinions, explore the extent to which the relationship
between Mitch and Blanche is based on deception and self deception.
Throughout Williams' play an unexpected relationship is developing
before us. This is the one formed between Mitch and Blanche. Two very
different characters who would appear to have nothing in common but
when they dig deeper into each others personalities they find that
have shared many past experiences and this gives them a basis for
their relationship. However, after realising that Blanche is not the
same person that she appears to be, Mitch begins to doubt anything
that she has told him in the past. Can the audience blame him, as they
know that she has even lied to her own sister. What makes her
relationship with Mitch different to that she has with any other
person? What makes him so special that she does not feel the need to
lie to him? Mitch proposes to Blanche that everything that she has
told him is a lie. That the person that he knows her as is make
believe. "Lies, lies, inside and out, all lies" (Scene 9), is the
phrase used by Mitch to convey his feelings to Blanche. He is right.
Blanche had based all her relationships on lies since she had arrived
in Stella and Stanley's house. She felt that it was the only way that
she would be accepted by her sister and brother in law. She was never
expecting to meet such a man as Mitch, but once he did appear she had
to continue the deceit with him, to make sure that she did not
incriminate herself, as she had already spun so many stories for
Stella and Stanley.
Mitch is a very weak character. He stays at home...
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...and she is
not as hard faced as she has seemed throughout the play. All she
wanted was to have something to replace what disappeared when she lost
Allan. There had obviously been something missing since he died, and
that is what Blanche had been searching for, sadly everywhere she
looked she only found herself in trouble. Cardullo sees her actions at
the Flamingo, not necessarily as prostituting herself, she may not
have thought of herself as a prostitute as most people would define
it. She was on her mission to find that lost thing, "they got wised up
after two or three dates with her," but maybe that was because they
did not have the thing that she wanted, and she was just as much for
them leaving as they were. Mitch was different however, she wanted him
and did not want to lose him. That is why she had to deceive him to
make sure that he did not leave.
and how she was worried of what she would be in for later on that night,
knew that she didn't love him, but still proceeded to commit the rest of his life to her. Consequently, a story of forbidden passion, hatred, and jealousy unfolds.
leave each other, not because she loved him, but because she was greedy and loved what
she wanted to see true love one more time, she wanted a love story to
Adversity can cause an individual to overcome their challenges and strengthen their identity, however, it can also have the opposite negative effect. Adversity can trigger an individual to lose their identity in their attempt to escape from their problems. In the play, A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams, Blanche DuBois is unable to face adversity, which leads her to lose her individual identity during her attempt to escape reality. Blanche had experienced numerous hardships such as the deaths of many family members and the loss of her young husband, Allan. Instead of overcoming these challenges and becoming stronger, Blanche tried to run away from them.
was that he wished she had been a boy. Her high hope of working with her husband
that he loves her for a long time, until one day he tells her things that break
because he felt she did not share his love for her. This poem is in
At the beginning of the story, one can see that there was not a lot of trust on the girl’s end of the relationship. She always speculated where
her to be somebody that she wasn't. Tea Cake let her be herself. He loved
.... He is a fool and doesn't see that she 'played' him and used him to satisfy one of her desires.
his situation. His reaction to her marriage in the first place sent him into deep depression,
that she knew a song that Sethe made up to sing to her children to
behavior and formed a prejudice against him. Even after he fell in love with her