Blanche a newly single women in her 30‘s looking for the upper class lifestyle this all sounds nice and dandy now but during the time period that Tennessee Williams wrote the play “Streetcar named Desire” these weren’t the things a women would like to associate with. Is that all blanches fault that she ended up in this situation? Lets take a look. She became recently single after her husband that she recently found out was a homosexual committed suicide. This lady is looking to be pampered in the upper class that she “deserves” even though she lost her family’s plantation and has nowhere to go now. Also the little problem that she keeps having sexual affairs with younger man, these are just the problem we are told but what actually is happening in her mind might all just be a huge fantasy. A women like this would be looked at as mentally unstable in current times even with all the crazy people we have roaming the street.
In October of 2008 we witnessed something that wasn’t seen since 1920, the stock market started to crash and the nation falling into a financial crises. In 18 months the Dow Jones dropped 50%, a more vicious decline than the Great Depression crash. During this crash 2.6 million people lost their jobs (cnn.com), and 1.2 million people lost their homes due to the recession (msnbc.com) in 2008. In a very short period of time people lost a lot without really knowing why, the hardest lost I believe is the 2 trillion dollars lost in retirement accounts. Losing your job, home, and all your savings is the story I’ve read about many times in newspapers and magazines. What could they do? Look for family to take them in or take their chances with the street. Many people were not able to cope with this mentally and were put in the same situation that Blanche was put into.
Now having nothing and being mentally devastated because of the events that you just went through is a very hard place to be in and one that no one should be put into. The best advice I can give someone would be that material things are replaceable but getting over something mentally is far more important than people think. Repressing the problems in life can make a person go insane and create an illusion to mask the entire problem. The illusion is something the person was to live in true and that is all nice but it doesn’t do any good. Its like the people that complain everyday that they are 10 or 15 pounds overweight but never go running or do anything about. The result for Blanche was that she was taken away to a mental hospital because her sister wasn’t sure if she was telling the truth or if the illusion completely took over her whole mind. Could this have been stopped? I believe so but it would have to been at the beginning and telling the whole truth to Stella and Stanley. This illusion was like a cancer it just kept growing and growing the more she lied. Until it got to the point that Blanche related everything back to the illusion even when she was caught in the lie.
In October of 2008 we witnessed something that wasn’t seen since 1920, the stock market started to crash and the nation falling into a financial crises. In 18 months the Dow Jones dropped 50%, a more vicious decline than the Great Depression crash. During this crash 2.6 million people lost their jobs (cnn.com), and 1.2 million people lost their homes due to the recession (msnbc.com) in 2008. In a very short period of time people lost a lot without really knowing why, the hardest lost I believe is the 2 trillion dollars lost in retirement accounts. Losing your job, home, and all your savings is the story I’ve read about many times in newspapers and magazines. What could they do? Look for family to take them in or take their chances with the street. Many people were not able to cope with this mentally and were put in the same situation that Blanche was put into.
Now having nothing and being mentally devastated because of the events that you just went through is a very hard place to be in and one that no one should be put into. The best advice I can give someone would be that material things are replaceable but getting over something mentally is far more important than people think. Repressing the problems in life can make a person go insane and create an illusion to mask the entire problem. The illusion is something the person was to live in true and that is all nice but it doesn’t do any good. Its like the people that complain everyday that they are 10 or 15 pounds overweight but never go running or do anything about. The result for Blanche was that she was taken away to a mental hospital because her sister wasn’t sure if she was telling the truth or if the illusion completely took over her whole mind. Could this have been stopped? I believe so but it would have to been at the beginning and telling the whole truth to Stella and Stanley. This illusion was like a cancer it just kept growing and growing the more she lied. Until it got to the point that Blanche related everything back to the illusion even when she was caught in the lie.
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