ur sympathy” (465) And Tennessee has accomplished this feat. Blanches character is clearly not one of purity, and this is drilled in as time after time the reader is assaulted with situations where Blanche reacts in a less than moral manner. And yet, we as readers still feel pity for Blanche; it is almost as if her faults make her more human, more sensitive, and less accountable for her actions.The examples I listed above were just a chip of what genius Tennessee fed into A Streetcar Named Desire. His words were not chosen with reckless abandon, rather each word is like a box that contains in its recesses a novel devoted to the implicit content of each character. Joseph Krutch, who I mentioned above, captured what I am attempting so say when he wrote, “this whole new wave of playwrights was not to preach, to be provocatively allusive… human relations are terrifyingly ambiguous” (17-18) This is why, I believe Williams’ plays work so well with the addition of symbolism. The characters emotions are expressed much more clearly when the feelings are bound within the play as opposed to lain on the surface. ...
