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In this 6 page paper, the writer demonstrates how the theme of disillusionment is developed through the characterizations of Blanche DuBois and Charlie Wales in these two short stories. No additional sources cited.
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life. This is coupled with a feeling that in some primordial "earlier" age, when one had illusions, life was more satisfying, but things have now changed so utterly that it
will never be anything like that again. We see this phenomenon at work, in very different ways, in both Tennessee Williams "A Streetcar Named Desire" and F.Scott Fitzgeralds "Babylon Revisited."
This paper will look at these two works and show how the theme of disillusionment is developed through the characterizations of Blanche DuBois and Charlie Wales. Our first meeting with
Blanche in Tennessee Williams play gives us no indication that she is not what she seems. She arrives at her sisters home, carrying a suitcase, and gives every impression of
being sincerely appalled at the circumstances into which her little sister has fallen. Eunice shows her up to Stellas apartment, and they establish in conversation the fact that Blanche comes
from a beautiful plantation in Mississippi. After Eunice leaves to fetch Stella, we see our first indication that Blanche is not the prim, fastidious little Southern Belle we thought at
first: she tosses down a tumbler-full of whiskey, carefully washing and replacing the glass so Stella will not know what she has done. "Ive got to keep hold of myself,"
she says, but for the first time we suspect she is not going to be able to do that. Here we have to conclude there is a definite conscious
split between the impression Blanche wants to give -- that she is a true Southern lady, an aristocrat -- and what she knows to be the truth, namely that she
has fallen from grace. She knows what she wants to be; she knows the image she wants to present to others; but at the beginning of the play she also
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