Take a photo of a barcode or cover
paulaks 's review for:
A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A multi layered play and well deserved candidate for the Literary canon!
While it isn't as easy to read, it shines in its themes, metaphors and complex relationships. Definitely worth to analyse.
Many themes and topics are covered throughout the story: desire, longing, domestic abuse, gender roles, social class, mental health, family struggles and power dynamics to mention a few.
The characters seem straightforward at the beginning but get complex and less easy to like or relate to once you get further into the play.
We follow Blanche as the protagonist, an unlikeable, delusional but confident women fighting against but being held back by gender roles. Her past is disturbing and melodramatic as well as her motivation and fatal flaw. Stanley functions as her opposition, a traditional, abusive and rough person. He is married to Blanche's sister Stella, a passive, good willed but weak character.
Tennessee Williams was able to capture the life and its expectations in the 1940s and confronts the reader with a tragic set of characters and their horrific fate.
While it isn't as easy to read, it shines in its themes, metaphors and complex relationships. Definitely worth to analyse.
Many themes and topics are covered throughout the story: desire, longing, domestic abuse, gender roles, social class, mental health, family struggles and power dynamics to mention a few.
The characters seem straightforward at the beginning but get complex and less easy to like or relate to once you get further into the play.
We follow Blanche as the protagonist, an unlikeable, delusional but confident women fighting against but being held back by gender roles. Her past is disturbing and melodramatic as well as her motivation and fatal flaw. Stanley functions as her opposition, a traditional, abusive and rough person. He is married to Blanche's sister Stella, a passive, good willed but weak character.
Tennessee Williams was able to capture the life and its expectations in the 1940s and confronts the reader with a tragic set of characters and their horrific fate.