Tennessee Williams a playwright plagued with a childhood in a dysfunctional family and the Burdon of being a homosexual in the 1940?s, wrote many plays concerning topics that could be considered taboo for their time. An excellent example of his controversial writing is presented in the play ?A Streetcar Named Desire.? This literary work deals with such topics as alcoholism, suicide, homosexuality, promiscuous sexual relations, rape, and nymphomania. The epitome of these problems has in …showed first 75 words of 1001 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1001 total…burdens that Blanch has accumulated over time have weighed on this character. It is not only her fault in the choices she made however the combination of events that occurred throughout her life. This is exemplified through the bad decisions she made in hopes to fill the emotional gap that was created by the loss of Allen and through the ideals of society at Elysian Fields that has reduced her to what she has become.