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One entry into A Streetcar Named Desire would be to look at the elements of love and death that are so clearly interwoven throughout the story. ... From the very beginning, Tennessee Williams draws a barrier between Blanche’s desire for love and her great fear of death.
Desire seems to become a driving force in all of Williams’ characters, particularly Blanche, whose way of dealing with it, or trying not to deal with it clearly fails her. As Blanche herself stated, death is desire’s opposite. ... In the very first act, Williams’ uses symbolism to emphasize the connection between death and Blanche’s desire to be loved. “They told me to take a streetcar named desire, and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at Elysian Fields”(15). With these words alone, Blanche describes a scene filled with both desire, which is what brought her there, death, which it what she fears most, and together they lead to an oblivion called the Elysian Fields.
Approximate Word count = 677
Approximate Pages = 2.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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