Post 3: After reading the whole play- Marina Vega

The themes that are presented in the play are:

Masculinity: in the play masculinity is expressed through agression, physical dominance, and violence. This masculinity is seen as primitive and sub- human.

Society: the play deals with the theme of immigrants and class differences.

Sex: including physical violence, mental degradation. They are presented in the sexual relations between hunband and wife.

Marriage: class difference between husband and wife. We see a dominant hunband who brings home the money and the doting wife who is responsible for making dinner and cleaning up.

Alcohol: in the play alcohol is used as a way of escape from reality.

Madness: the main character, Blanche, can't distinguish between her fantasies and reality.

I think that the title of the play means Blanche came to town on the streetcar named “desire”. It means that she had been so surrounded by death that she wanted the opposite, which was desire. Desires for her symbolized life and being young. After she loses everything in Laurel, she comes to New Orleans on the streetcar named desire and then she gets on the streetcar named Cemetary which symbolizes death.

While I was reading the play, it made me think about the crazy things one could do when you feel lonely and not desire in life. It also made me think that there are a lot of people who do not accept their appearances and suffer because they are getting older. In my opinion we have to accept us as we are, since there are things more important in life than beauty.

If I have the chance to ask the writer a question, I would ask him if the Kowalski marriage was a healthy one.