| Streetcar Named Desire | |
| Posted by: bearcat 06:33 pm EDT 06/04/18 | |
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| A few days ago, someone in my dinner group blithely noted: "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." This person had done a lot of freewheeling traveling and considered the kindness of strangers a dependable way to operate through his varied excursions. I started to rethink my (and maybe the standard interpretation) of this phrase. Blanche has been so wracked and is now so fragile, she needs the kindness of strangers. But "strangers" have not done her right -- Shep Huntley, Shaw, all those encountered on the byways leading to the family estate have mishandled her. Depending on strangers is no way to navigate a life - even tho it sounds noble and benevolent coming from Blanche. The conclusion's doctor and nurse are most likely leading her to an asylum for the poor where she will be mishandled, given cold baths, shook treatments, perhaps a lobotomy. have I been misreading this line all these years, or am I misinterpreting it now...?...- |
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