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 extraordinary 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 in actuality she flourishes with her self-announced eminence. In the mean time, Tom Wingfield is a negative character who denies his life working at a shoe production line for his mom and sister while living in the shadows of his dad. Both these characters additionally build up a reliance upon liquor to beat clashes they are confronted with. Blanche’s battle happens in the wake of losing all she had back home in Belle Reve aside from 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 right away needs to wed to be spared from her current debasing way of life. â€Å"Ms. DuBois says that she is on an excursion at the Kowalski’s, however in truth has lost the family manor, Belle Reve, and her showing position because of her sexual careless activities, the last one with a 17-year-old kid while acquiring a notoriety for laying down with men aimlessly, meanwhile claiming 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 veil 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 miserable in his stockroom employment, and ends up remaining on the emergency 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 aspirations stuck in the shoe processing plant making a lousy pay for his family, made up of a debilitated sister and ridiculous 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 discernibly an abuser of liquor as she is found continually tasting endlessly at alcohol to overlook her past, which her inner voice knows is blameworthy. Tom is supposed to be at â€Å"the movies,† in the mean time 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 manhandled it to an unfortunate level, where they expended it when confronting unpleasant occasions or disturbing recollections that followed. Likewise, in the two plays these two characters shrouded the way that they ever even devoured alcohol, while they were continually drinking in complete refusal. 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 failure to adapt to this present reality alone makes her a powerless character. She can't live autonomously 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 lessens 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 †supervisor. Distributer: Chelsea House. Spot of Publication: New York. 1988. 5. Tennessee Williams. The Glass Menagerie. Harold Bloom †proofreader. Distributer: Chelsea House. Spot of Publication: New York. 1988.