Monday, April 7, 2008

My supper brillant thematic idea

I fell like I pretty much already have a theme for the American author paper...why dose Tennessee Williams choose to focus so much on his negative, painful and dis functional childhood? His plays are full of strained family relationships. alcoholic, lust, love triangles, and abuse. Because Tennessee's own father was an alcoholic who deemed Tennessee worthless was an inspiration to him? Or his over bearing obsequious mother? Some of his characters almost seem to be the same people as his own family members just with diffrent names. So the question on the table is why?

Besides coming to this conclusion I have read only a little of sense 11 but plan to finish it soon. I'm on like page 168 but am dying to find out how it all ends so by my next post.....

So Stella's come home from the hospital with her baby(still no word if its a girl or a boy though) with no idea of Blanche and Stanley's affair. She and Eunice are packing Blanche up as she is leaving for a mystery trip somewhere. Meanwhile there is another poker game going on in the kitchen.

Where I am in a Nutshell

So it seems like its been a while since I've done one of these babies but it hasn't really been that long at all I think I may have caught it...Senioritis! But I can and will do this. So I'm just about finished with Streetcar and I love it a lot more then Cat On A Hot Tin Roof. I read from page 1 to page 162 and scenes 1-10. With only one scene left I am getting very excited to see how the play ends.

So what happens? Well after Blanche arrives at her sisters 2 roomed New Orleans Apartment shocked by its rawness and expecting something more glamors for her little sister she grows more surprised when she meets Stella's husband the rough Stanley and learns Stella's expecting. After Stanley strikes Stella at the poker game a horrified Blanche realizes Stanley's one of those abusive drunks and Stella seems helpless to his lust for her. She promptly tries to convenience Stella that her and Stanley's relationship is not healthy and not loving. But Blanche is running from mistakes that are haunting her and hiding them from both her sister and simpleton summer love. Scene ten ends with Blanche and Stanley's affair while Stella is in labor. But by this point Blanches past has spilled out. All of it how she was fired from her job at the school, her affair with her 17 year old student, how she lost her and Stella's beautiful country home.

And all thats left..a mess of lies.