Yihai Han. Asher.per.4.team three. street car named desire essay.

In the novel A Street Car Named Desire, Tennessee Williams illustrate how Blanche descends lower in her moral status as the novel reveals many of her appalling pasts. And by the end; she is alienated from whom that once loved her. Her misinterpretation of reality with her lust for sexual needs slowly but quite surely puts her in an unstable moral standard and by the end, she is sent to an insane asylum.

At first William illustrates how very normal she is and how she meets moral standards based on societies point of view. She was a schoolteacher and was married. One day when she found her husband in bed with an older male, this marked the beginning of her torn relationship and the start of her needs for sexual deeds. Later on, her husband killed himself because of her insensitivity to this matter and how she told others. Williams also tell us how she was fired because she had sex with one of her students. This immoral value is frowned upon in today’s society, which would alienate anyone. Now she has no job, no money, and no husband, which leaves her the last option of moving in with her sister and her sister’s husband Stanley. At first she keeps away the truth from them, but by the end Stanley found out about her past and was a major reason for the sending of Blanche to an insane asylum. William cleverly shows how Blanche can be alienated by her unpleasant past and that is what happened with her and Stanley’s friend. They dated for a while and once Stanley told him about how she was easy and how she lost her job, this caused them to break up illustrating that ones word can effect the perception of others on you. William also describes how she lost touch with reality in a way as Blanche thinks that there is a millionaire guy who will let her live with him and be husband and wife. This imagination is proved to be wrong later in the novel also causing to be the catalyst for her to be sent to an insane asylum. William describes in this novel how Stanley raped Blanche at the end, which did happen, and when Blanche told her sister she did not believe her. Her sister could not believe Blanche (her own sister) because of her past and imagination. Blanche’s sister can only now believe in Stanley because they just had a newborn.

William by the end tells how anything one can do based on their characteristics can be alienated by certain people all based on their perception on that person. The views on culture and society based on anything can be crude or needed, but it is certain that it exists even in the cruelest way.