Illusions in Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire :: Streetcar Named Desire

Illusions in A Streetcar Named Desire         In Tennessee Williams play, A Streetcar Named Desire, there are manyexamples where the characters are using illusions in an attempt to escape reality.         The best example is found by looking to the master(prenominal) character.Blanche Dubois was a troubled woman who throughout the play lives her lifein illusions. The story begins with Blanche going to New Orleans to staywith her sister Stella, and her husband Stanley for a while.  Here, theillusions are revealed and the battle between the illusions and thecharacters will begin.  What initially leads to her illusions is love.When she was young, sixteen, I made the discovery - love.  All at once andmuch, much too completely (1368).  She met Allan Grey, the blameless man -he had a nervousness, a softness and tenderness which wasnt like a mans,although he wasnt the least bit effeminate (1368).  &nb sp      However, as we are in conclusion are shown, this illusion wouldntlast forever.  The young couple got married and, to Blanche, were fallingmore and more in love, when one day coming into a manner that I thought wasempty (1368), this illusion would be shattered.  In this room were herhusband, Allan, and a older male friend of his.  Allan Grey was gay.  Soon,Blanche acquire that all on he had been trying to let her know and getthe help he needed but couldnt speak of  He was in the quicksands andclutching at me - but I wasnt holding him out, I was slipping in withhim (1368).  She was falling farther into the illusion with each passingsecond with her love, because she couldnt really believe that he was withher and was for real.         Allan was in detail an illusion himself, by trying to appear straightto everyone.  At first, they would try to deny it but the illusion wouldsoon be totally destro yed when Blanche let it slip while they were dancingthat I saw  I know  You disgust me... (1369).  With this, Allan runsoutside and kills himself.  I believe that Allan killed himself more sobecause he realised Blanche would no longer help him than because she knew.He believed that if there was anyone who would help him make it throughthis whole ordeal, it would be Blanche.         Because of  all this, Blanche fell into another illusion.  Shefigured that if she were love again, the way Allan and her were meant tobe, then she could be happy again.  So, after the death of Allan -intimacies with strangers was all I seemed able to fill my empty heart