A Street Car Named Desire

Go Crazy, Don't Mind If I Do In Tennessee Williams' play, "A Streetcar Named Desire", readers see Blanche DuBois' ability to separate herself from reality. Blanche goes to visit her sister Stella, her only living relative. She meets the "animal"(72) Stanley Kowalski. From the first time Stanley and Blanche meet she develops a strong dislike for the primitive being. Stanley has no problem showing that the feeling is mutual. Blanche's sugarcoated "lies"(118) simply fuel Stanley's …

…a dependent person, and she is defenseless to Stanley's attacks, which turn her character insane. Her dreams and fantasies are her only way to save her sanity. She lives a life lost in "lies"(118). Alcohol and promiscuity destroy her. The alcohol makes her forget her horrible past. The promiscuity temporarily "fill her (my) empty heart"(118) while she searches for a substitute for her dead husband. Insanity and reality can never coexist as in Blanche's case.