Compare and Contrast In retrospection, it can be deduced after viewing A Streetcar Named Desire in two different mediums that external and internal visualizations are not one and the same. After reading the Tennessee Williams play, A Streetcar Named Desire, I had a fairly defined representation of how I perceived the main characters within this play. Williams presented the tragic story of a woman hiding behind the veneer of the social privileged who is brutally forced over the edge of insanity by an envious, vindictive lower class male. The protagonist, Blanche Dubois, the aging southern socialite who lost her ancestral home Belle Reve, is a fragile personality due to a multitude of untold tragedies creating a sympathetic character…show more content… Stanley, as the antagonist in the play, exemplified the typical lower class male envious of the aristocracy revels in his abusive and vindictive nature. As I watched the 1951 film representation of A Streetcar Named Desire I found that my perception and representation of these characters within this play were not the same as the character portrayals within the film. Therefore, after reviewing both I believe the factors that precipitated this change was the film unnecessarily manipulating settings, the visual and audio aspects influencing perceptions and the actor’s portrayals of the main characters which helped to modify my preconceived internal visualization of this story. In the film, the director must have felt the need to provide visuals of the various settings that were merely mentioned within the play in hopes of providing depth to the storyline. Although in my case, these additions became a distraction after reading the play. The new settings of the casino, factory and bowling alley along with the interactions created for the main characters within these settings was the beginning of monumental
