Streetcar Named Desire is a play by Tennessee Williams that I decided to read on my own individual time. This play has so many themes that it can be hard to connect it to just one story sometimes. In order to really get it to click in your brain you have to look at the deeper meaning and see what the book is really trying to say.
Today I will be connecting this play to the book Oedipus by Sophocles that we read as a group in class. In Oedipus he left his “biological” family in Corinth to move to a new country that he became the king of called Thebes. When he got to Thebes he ended up creating more drama for himself when he ended up killing his biological father. Overall he ends up running away from his family.
Although Blanche's story is not exactly like that it is pretty similar. Blanche leaves her home in Belle Reve after her family ends up all passing away (1.1.26). Blanche first decided to leave after living by herself without her family for a while. After she gets evicted from their family home she decides to pack up and move to New Orleans to live with her younger sister Stella. Essentially Blanche also decided to run away from her own home issues. Blanche’s husband committed suicide after he could not handle the guilt of Blanche finding out he was gay. Both of Blanche and Stella’s parents died and left her to have the house by herself.
The stories are similar because each character has their own problems in their original home town and then they ended up running away from their problems only to create even bigger problems. Although the plays are complete opposites they can still correlate and compare in more than one way.
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