Blanche Dubois and Tom Wingfield’s Struggle Between Fantasy and Reality

Blanche DuBois and Tom Wingfield’s Struggle Between Fantasy and Reality The two characters, Blanche DuBois from A Streetcar Named Desire and Tom Wingfield of The Glass Menagerie, both offer an exceptional battle among dream and reality in their lives causing reliance upon liquor. Whiten DuBois approaches as a high class Southern Belle who relies on others to think about her, however as a general rule she flourishes with her self-announced sovereignty. In the mean time, Tom Wingfield is a critical character who denies his life working at a shoe plant for his mom and sister while living in the shadows of his dad. Both these characters likewise build up a reliance upon liquor to defeat clashes they are confronted with. Blanche’s battle happens in the wake of losing all she had back home in Belle Reve with the exception of her trunk of garments and props, yet is presented to the hash truth of this present reality where she can't adapt and should rely upon others. One model, for example, Stanley Kowalski’s companion, Mitch, whom she in a flash needs to wed to be spared from her current corrupting way of life. â€Å"Ms. DuBois says that she is on an extended get-away at the Kowalski’s, yet in certainty has lost the family house, Belle Reve, and her showing position because of her sexual thoughtless activities, the last one with a 17-year-old kid while procuring a notoriety for laying down with men unpredictably, meanwhile professing to be a Southern chime (Magill standards. 1-2). Blanche is so up to speed in her dreamland that she even had relations with the conveyance kid, too, so she may cover her age with youth and to have control of another. Tom winds up attempting to satisfy his fantasies about composing verse. This is because of his working at the neighborhood shoe production line so he can bolster his family. â€Å"Mr. Wingfield is urgently troubled in his distribution center employment, and ends up remaining on the emerg ency exit to the loft in his expectations of one day escaping to seek after his fantasies as his dad bloomed (standards. 15-16). Tom is continually talking about how he is held down from his expectations, objectives, dreams, and desire stuck in the shoe production line making a lousy compensation for his family, made up of a debilitated sister and incoherent mother. Tom can't acknowledge the truth that encompasses him and is continually mulling over about his fantasy life, which he is shielded from accomplishing. Blanche, similar to Tom, mishandles liquor to get away from her battles among dream and reality. Blanche is perceptibly an abuser of liquor as she is found continually tasting ceaselessly at alcohol to overlook her past, which her heart knows is blameworthy. Tom is supposed to be at â€Å"the movies,† then he is in reality out at the bars the entire hours of the night. This is Tom’s method of briefly getting away from his home and overlooking his obligations that trap and keep him from achieving his objectives throughout everyday life. Neither one of the characters needed liquor, however mishandled it to an unbearable level, where they expended it when confronting unpleasant occasions or upsetting recollections that followed. Additionally, in the two plays these two characters shrouded the way that they ever even expended alcohol, while they were continually drinking in complete disavowal. The two characters, Blanche DuBois from A Streetcar Named Desire and Tom Wingfield of The Glass Menagerie, both offer an exceptional battle among dream and reality in their lives causing reliance upon liquor. Blanche’s powerlessness to adapt to this present reality alone makes her a frail character. She can't live freely and has lost such once made her life, back in Belle Reve, because of her mistook relationship for an understudy of hers. Tom, despite what might be expected, has a solid character that is worked on after some time because of the tormenting way of life he should live to help his family. After time this solid establishment of character decreases as Tom needs to escape his fixed life back at home. 1. Magill Book Reviews 1990/03/15 2. Sprout's Modern Critical Interpretations: The Glass Menagerie; 1988, p31-41, 11p 3. Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature; Letter D, pN. PAG, 1p 4. Tennessee Williams. A Streetcar Named Desire. Harold Bloom †manager. Distributer: Chelsea House. Spot of Publication: New York. 1988. 5. Tennessee Williams. The Glass Menagerie. Harold Bloom †supervisor. Distributer: Chelsea House. Spot of Publication: New York. 1988.