Interpretation On The Tragic Fate Of Blanche In Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire

When A Streetcar Named Desire premiered at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in New York, it shocked its audience and there exists lots of disputation in the critics in many aspects: sexuality, homosexuality, rape, loneliness, insanity and so on. It is probably the one mostly identified with the dramatists and certainly the one that has elicited the most critical commentary. It fulfilled the promise of the early work and catapulted Williams to the front rank of the American dramatists.As a middle-class writer, Tennessee Williams spends almost all his life in the South. He pays close attention to the fate of the southern middle-class. Williams always resorts to his own experiences in the south as his artistic resources. His A Streetcar Named Desire is intensely autobiographical. Much of the pathos found in Williams's drama was mined from the playwright's own life. His works truly reflects his inner life. He tries to present the spiritual and emotional world of his characters and even melts his frustrations and loneliness into their life. Williams's most memorable characters, many of them female, contain recognizable elements of their author, his mother Edwina, her sister Rose and himself. His vulgar, irresponsible male characters, such as Stanley Kowalski are likely modeled on Williams's own farther and on other males who tormented Williams. Williams grows up under the emotional support of his mother and maternal grandparents. This period of life leaves him a good memory and has a great impact on his sensitive, shy and weak character.As a native writer, He receives the traditional cultural education in the old South during his youth age and is deeply affected by the ethics of Puritanism. His experiences in the South make him gain a deep understanding of the South and its culture. Williams lives in a transition period from plantation economy to industrialized economy. The declining of the South and the course of industrialization are unavoidable. Williams is sentimentally attached to the beautiful past of the old South and deeply regrets the decline of it. In his mind, the old South symbolizes...