Themes and Colors Key LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in A Streetcar Named Desire, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. A Streetcar Named Desire [Scene 7] Lyrics It is late afternoon in mid-September. His father was an angry, aggressive drunk who was abusive towards Williams’ mother. This scene portrays Blanche’s fantasy-versus-reality significantly, and from this scene onwards, it does not deteriorate in the slightest. CONTEXTUAL LINK: The madness that Williams has displayed in Blanche’s singing could be a mirror image, or another use of mimesis, of the mental illness that ran in Williams’ family. Stella reveals Blanche’s secrets about her husband to Stanley, saying that it ‘killed her illusions’. By labelling her, ironically, a ‘Dame’ acts as Blanche’s dream, but as Stanley has stated, the madness that Blanche is engrossed in – like Williams’ mother and sister – is ‘downright loco – nuts’ and not Southern Belle material. ‘I wouldn’t be expecting Mitch over tonight.’ (p.74). A Streetcar Named Desire. Regarded as not just different but downright loco – nuts.’ (p.71). This is seen through the character Stanley. This is a key theme throughout the play, and not just this scene, but it is very prominent through Blanche’s singing. A Streetcar Named Desire: Scene 7 Summary & Analysis Next. Scene 8. This represents a convergence between them now, and the subject matter of Blanche’s singing – about people believing in her – battling against bitter tone of Stanley’s speech about Blanche indicates that their “opposites attract”, however cliché this may seem. London: Penguin Group. Just by knowing that it is Stanley who mimics Blanche, we can decipher that he is going to be bitter and satirical, and not with harmless witticism: When Stella says that Blanche is in the bathroom, Stanley responds by saying: And, when Stella says that Blanche has been in the bathroom all afternoon, Stanley says: ‘[mimicking] ‘Soaking in a hot tub’?’ (p.69). Williams appears to have created the bathroom to be Blanche’s “safe zone” that clouds the air around it, so she cannot hear or be aware of anyone else until she is ready. The bitter tone that Stanley upholds could be a mirror image of Williams’ father. The scene begins with Blanche bathing in the bathroom, which Williams highlights even more now, and this is scene through Williams’ use of mimesis. ( Log Out /  A Streetcar Named Desire.

Sexual Desire. London: Penguin Group. He asks whether ‘company’ is expected, and Mitch is ‘expected’ by Stella and Blanche.

Stanley has evidently been investigating Blanche’s background before she journeyed to Elysian Fields, as he tells Stella that she has been lying about everything, including why she left her job on a “break” and Stanley says: ‘She’s not going back to teach school! This scene portrays Blanche’s fantasy-versus-reality significantly, and from this scene onwards, it does not deteriorate in the slightest. View all posts by yourenglishliterature, A Streetcar Named Desire, Alliteration, Ambition, America, American Literature, Analogy, Analyse, Analysis, Anaphora, Anonymous, Appearances, Art, Beautiful, Beauty, Bibliography, Blanche Dubois, Blog, Blogger, Blogging, Blogs, Book, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Class, Cliché, Concept, Context, Control, Creation, Creative Writing, Creativity, Critic, Critical Evaluations, Criticism, Critics, Deception, Education, Emotion, Emotions, English Literature, Entrapment, Escapism, False, Fantasy, Fatigue, Foreshadowing, Frustration, Future, God, Happiness, Health, Help, Imagery, Imagination, Inspiration, Irony, Issues, Language, Language Analysis, Lies, Literature, Louisiana, Love, Madness, Manipulation, Mental, Mental Health, Mental Issues, Metaphor, Mitch, Modern, Modernisation, Modernism, Monologue, Mutability, Nature, New Orleans, Notes, Past, Pathos, Plays, Playwright, Poem, Poems, Poetry, Postmodernism, Power, Power and Control, Present, Relationships, Repetition, Represent, Representation, Respect, Review, Reviews, Revising, Revision, Revision Note, Revision Notes, Script, Semantic Field, Social Class, Society, Southern Belle, Stanley Kowalski, Stella, Summary, Synopsis, Tennessee, Tennessee Williams, Terminology, Textual Evidence, The New South, The Old South, Themes, Thought, Thoughts, Time, Tired, Top Stories, Tragedy, Truth, USA, Violence, Williams, Writing. If you have not read the first six scene summary+analysis’, you can do that now: One; Two; Three; Four; Five; Six. I love analysis, and annotating books, plays, poetry. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of A Streetcar Named Desire and what it means. Change ), Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire – Scene 7, John Keats Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil – Analysis, Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire – Scene 8. Also, the abusive side of Williams’ father was not just physical, but the physical abuse may have caused emotional abuse. The way that Williams has employed the transparency of Stanley ‘mimicking’ Blanche indicates that Stanley is indifferent about how Blanche feels and what she does. Considering this, the mimesis in this scene not only is mimicry of Blanche, but mimics Williams’ father. Blanche detects that something had happened with Stanley, but Stella says that ‘nothing has happened’. Look out for Scene 8! The way that what Stanley says is placed in quotation marks indicates that perhaps what Stanley is saying is cliché or an aphorism.

Bibliography. I love writing prose fiction and poetry. What is staggeringly insensitive on Stella’s part is the way that she responds by saying ‘I reckon so.’. Stella puts candles on Blanche’s birthday cake, and Stanley asks how many she is putting on, and she puts on twenty-five, but this number is not questioned again by Stanley, and he changes the subject very quickly. The semantic field of artificial substances – ‘paper’ and ‘cardboard’ – reinforces Blanche’s artificial persona and blithe manner.

A seventeen-year-old boy – she’d gotten mixed up with!’ (p.72). CONTEXTUAL LINK: The way that Stanley has an extrovert, arrogant, and subsequently angry character links to Williams’ father. Blanche sings that something would not be ‘make-believe’ if ‘you believed’ in her. This takes Blanche’s ‘make-believe’ and fantasy world to another level as it shows that she has been acting and pretending not only in the present, but in the past. A summary of Part X (Section7) in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire. Fantasy and Delusion. His mother was “on the verge of hysteria” and his sister was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Blanche comes out of the bathroom demanding Stella to get her a towel, but soon offers Stella the chance to bathe. No, siree, Bob! Williams has cleverly integrated this clichéd image to reinforce further the mockery that Stanley feels he needs to use to stand being around Blanche and her habits. They kicked her out of that high school before the spring term ended – and I hate to tell you the reason that step was taken! Stanley, when telling what he found out about Blanche: ‘The trouble with Dame Blanche was that she couldn’t put on her act any more…the same old lines, same old act, same old hooey!…she became a town character. It is Blanche’s birthday. This is because Stanley told Mitch everything that his investigator told him about Blanche, and Stanley is convinced that this will have put him off of Blanche.

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Blanche is bathing, again, and Stanley mimics that she is ‘[w]ashing out some things’ instead of calming her nerves. The ‘make-believe’ aspect is carrying on throughout the scene. The way that Blanche’s general hysterical attitude is silenced by the blithe singing and the act of bathing could be a coping mechanism to escape the hysteria, as Williams’ mother had. When Stanley eventually shouts at Blanche to get out of the bathroom, Blanche ‘emerges with a gay peal of laughter‘ (p.75) that Stanley uses as an excuse to push past her into the bathroom. This fact tells us immediately that there is going to be tension, as Blanche will act even more incongruous and “in the spotlight”  than usual, even though she claims that she does not like a bright light. However, Stanley cunningly says. Stanley tries to persuade Stella that Blanche is nothing but a liar, and her company in Elysian Fields is overdue and unwanted. Book: Williams, T. (1947). Blanche appears to see herself as someone who can change fantasy into reality. So, unlike Blanche, Stella does not feel the need to relieve her nerves with bathing, nor is she ‘worried’ about her ‘soul’. Stanley becomes more and more irritated with Blanche’s use of the bathroom, and this anger produces Stanley to threaten to send Blanche back to Laurel. ( Log Out /  Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Stanley is consistently reluctant to help get things ready for Blanche’s birthday dinner, and ironically calls her ‘Her Majesty’. In alignment with this, Blanche is, unlike Stanley, peculiarly unaware of the mimicry and sails along with her habits quite peacefully. She didn’t resign temporarily from the high school because of her nerves! CONTEXTUAL LINK: The irony of ‘Dame Blanche’ that Williams uses is representative of Blanche’s desire, and imaginative notion of being the Southern Belle. And, in a pivotal stage direction, Williams says that Blanche is singing from the bathroom ‘contrapuntally‘ to Stanley’s speech. This is supported by Blanche’s singing, and how she sings: ‘[singing blithely]: ‘Say, it’s only a paper moon, Sailing over a cardboard sea – But it wouldn’t be make-believe If you believed in me!’ (p.70). However, Stella responds to this “kind” offer by saying ‘It’s not my soul I’m worried about!’ (p.73). Stella admits that she had hoped that Blanche and Mitch would get married. Book: Williams, T. (1947). The adverb ‘blithely’ is very significant – Blanche is singing ignorantly, casually, and this tune that she is singing in the bathroom, and her “safe zone” creates the ignorance.

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