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"I couldn't believe her story and go on living with Stanley." Gross says: In an article entitled On a Streetcar Named Success which appeared in The New York Times a few days before Streetcar`s opening, Williams described his awkward assumption of a public identity, an artifice of mirrors, which alienated him from his private and relatively anonymous identity as a literary struggler clawing and scratching along a sheer surface and holding on with raw fingers. (51). This same idea is shown at the beginning of scene II, when Blanches dress is laid out on Stellas bed. To lack privacy is to be exposed to multiple and often conflicting outside influerences. Reality and Illusions Leading to Deeper Meanings of Life in Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie. Revista Eletrnica do Instituto de Humanidades. Request Permissions, Published By: University of North Carolina Press. Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire The two plays may seem alike, however Tennessee William produces an irony between even Stanley Kowalski of Streetcar. Depicting sex and rape openly on the stage and presenting homosexuality are considered as new distortions in the subject of theater in the United States. Welsch, Camille-Yvette. His mother and father did not have a happy life so he was used to living in a household of tension. Explore the way in which marriage is presented in both The Great Gatsby and A Streetcar Named Desire. | A Streetcar Named Desire 's dialogue consists of two contrasting styles: straightforward and naturalistic, spoken by the more down-to-earth characters like Stella and Mitch, and poetic, spoken mainly by Blanche. Williams Battle of Angels and You Touched Me employ the trapping of expressionism without accomplishing the purpose of revealing the inner life. At uni Williams studied Chekhov and Ibsen. No longer a camera photograph, the stage could be highly elaborate or bare; the accompanying lighting, costumes, music, and scenery could be similarly non-realistic. "- 1, 2, , 4, 5, 6, 7, "Our ways of life are too different. Blanche is both a theatricalizing and self-theatricalizing woman. Welsch alleged Williams breaks realistic conventions by showing inexpressible through music, not using Photographic techniques: The music then becomes a way to enter the characters unstable mind without having to take the viewer out of the fabric of the play. Yes, yes, magic! I'm going to do something. Tennessee Williams was born in the southern state of Mississippi, where Belle Reve is supposed to be located. The Second World War took place between 1939-45 with America joining the war in 1941. For example, Mitch frequently says dont instead of doesnt, as in, She dont go to sleep until I come in., The poetic dialogue has a lyrical quality.