A Streetcar Named Desire is a great story. The way the play writer delivers the story is attracting. I can understand the story easily because the language and dialogue he used is simple. The issue he brought in this story, desire and loneliness, is also attract my attention because I love to discuss that kind of topic.
According to my reading there are four main characters in this play. They are Stella, Blanche, Stanley, and Mitch. None of these characters is perfect because they have their own weak point of themselves. But before talk further about the characters, there is a statement that has relation somehow to them. It is a statement by the play writer of A Streetcar Named Desire: “Desire is rooted in a longing for companionship, a release from the loneliness that haunts every individual.”
I can find the meaning of this statement in the four characters that are mentioned above. All of them have their own desire to fulfill. They look for it from person (or people) near to them. They are afraid of their loneliness, so they try so hard to find the proper companion for them.
Stella, the first main character of the play deal with the desire of respecting her sister, Blanche, and in the same time wants to please her husband, Stanley. It is a hard thing for her because in fact Stanley doesn’t like the presence of Blanche in their house. She has a dilemma of facing this situation. Even though in the end she follows Stanley’s will, she still feels sorry for Blanche.
Stanley, the second main character has the problem of companionship with Blanche. He feels that way because Blanche bothers the please relationship between him and Stella. He feels that his honor as a husband and as a man is bothered by Blanche’s attitude. He wants to enjoy his companionship with Stella without another Blanche with all of her problems and lies.
Blanche has a problem with loneliness. She wants many people around him to listen to her, give compliment to her, and love her. She did manipulation of her experience in order to make people especially men adore her. But at the last, Mitch, the man who likes her feels disappointed when he knows the fact about Blanche’s lies. It hurts him a lot so he doesn’t want to meet her again.
Mitch has a desire to release his loneliness by looking for the companion, a woman. In the first time he was happy with the presence of Blanche. But then when he knows about her lies, he feels hurt. It is because a relationship can not be build by the lies. Finally he chooses to be alone again than to be companied by that such woman.
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