Streetcar, Everyone is psychotic

In Tennessee Williams’ A Street Car Named Desire, the characters are greatly affected psychologically. It takes place in a small shack in New Orleans. In the tiny house, lives a couple, Stella, the beautiful sophisticated girl who “Sista Blanche” thinks deserves better than the Brute, the animal, the Polack, Stanley Kowalski. Both Blanche and Stanley come from very different backgrounds, they have very different lifestyles, and the don’t clash very nicely, never mind live together. This affects my aspect of modernism, because everyone is affected psychologically in the play. Everybody is always making assumptions, trying to plan things out to blackmail the other, and its about who has the stronger mind, whoever can take more psychological abuse from the other, Stanley or Blanche, whoever can stay mentally stronger for longer than the other, will get Stella and the other will be thrown out of the house. Stanley understands Blanche is a threat to his marriage with Stella. After hurting Blanche’s feelings, Stanley says to Stella, “And wasn’t we happy together? Wasn’t it all okay? Till she showed here. Hoity-toity, describing me as an ape.” Also Blanche understands Stanley is a threat to her life and where she lives. Blanche states to Mitch about Stanley, “He hates me. Or why would he insult me? The first time I laid eyes on him I thought to myself, that man is my executioner! That man will destroy me, unless -” This is all psychological now because, in a nutshell, whoever can deal with the most trauma, gets Stella, the other is left with nothing. Thats why Stanley is doing everything he can to get her out of the house, such as buying her a bus ticket back to Laurel on her birthday, and Blanche is trying to turn Stella against Stanley. Let’s see what happens next in Tennessee’s play!

Psychology in Modernism

I chose “The use of such structural approaches to experience as psychoanalysis, myth, the symbolic apprehension and comprehension of reality” as my attribute of modernism. In short, this is saying how the action of a character is affeced by their psychology. Many characters, like in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” were greatly affected psychologically. Things such as isolationsim can affect the character, and in Prufrock, he eventually committed suicide. In Elliot’s “The Hollow Man,” you can see how the psychology of the character affects the outcome of the poem.

About me

Hello my name is Jeff and I am a Junior at Auburn High School. I am a pitcher on the Auburn Rockets Varsity Baseball team. My typical daily agenda consits of school, sports, and friends. I hope to play college baseball when i graduate and become a business major or study pre-law. In my Honors English III class, we have been studying some attributes of modern literature. My favorite attribute of modern literature is “the use of such structural approaches to experience as psychoanalysis, myth, the symbolic apprehension and comprehension of reality.” In short, this attribute is the exploration of the mind of a character in the literature. Myths, symbols, and basic psychology is used to figure out the character.

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