REALITY AND IMAGINATION Reality can be comforting or agonizing, it depends on who’s reality is in question. Tennessee Williams depicted reality and what it can do to people in The Pulitzer Prize winning play “A Streetcar Named Desire”. The story is about an unmarried thirty year old woman who creates a new magic reality for herself to escape the cruelty and bitterness of the real world. She comes to New Orleans from a once …showed first 75 words of 1405 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1405 total…she regretted doing. Making up events which never transpired, excessive drinking, telling ought to be truths and bathing were Blanche’s escapes from the real world that ultimately led her to mentally dissolve. Of course, the story itself is only fiction, but relates how some people use their imagination to escape from reality when things are not in their favor. Reality can be comforting or agonizing, it depends on who’s reality is in question.