Hysterical Reality in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire: A Post Modern Approach

This paper shows that Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire depicts a world of woman which is totally different from the real world. The world can be termed as a hysterical world or fictitious world. Blanche, the protagonist,  is the victim who is detached from the male made society livres in a world of imagination. Blanche has to undergo an uncountable number of sufferings. Following a qualitative approach and applying a postmodern reading, this paper will express the condition of Blanche as a victim in the male dominated society. James Wood’s concept of hysterical realism will be applied to depict the hysterical world of Blanche. The findings of my study show that she moves one place to another to find a harbor but she cannot. Wherever she goes, she gets humiliated. Everyone deceives her after sucking her hope. She accepts her fate that this cruel world is not for her. Then she creates an imaginary world where she determines to live with her beloved.  

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