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 share an intense struggle between fantasy and reality in their lives causing dependency ...
Fantasy vs. Reality Blanche is sufficiently self-aware to know that she cannot survive in the world as it is. Reality is too harsh, so she must somehow create illusions that will allow her to maintain...
How Does Williams Present the Themes of Illusion and Fantasy in a Streetcar Named Desire?
How does Williams present the themes of illusion and fantasy in A Streetcar Named Desire? The theme of reality vs. fantasy is one that the play centres around. Blanche dwells in illusion; fantasy is h...
It is no wonder that an increasing umber of short story business books (that also can be read during a short flight or train) has been published in the past decade. Before we would sneer at the genre,...
"A Connoisseur's Revenge" Plot/Description This is one of my favorite Dahl stories, and the one with (I think) the most potent twist in the tail of all. It's not until the very last sentence that you ...