Favorite Fishbowl- A Street Car

       The fishbowl “A Street Car” caught my attention due to the concepts that were discussed such as fantasy v. reality, the inability to accept truth and isolating darkness. The fishbowl presented many aspects that one could relate to real life situations. Discussing the inability to accept truth helped my understandingabout womenall over the world facing illusions in their own relationship depicted throughout male dominance. For example, Stella could not face the truth that her husband Stanley raped her sister Blanche. The concept of rejecting the truth leads to fantasy, which the main character Stella also portrays. Fantasy is an illusion that it created by the external social world. When discussing the concept of isolating darkness, examples of Blanche were mentioned. For example, light portrayed the theme of isolating darkness because Blanche would hide out of the light from society due to fear and guilt. Blanche states to Mitch that ever since her husband died, all other relationships became “dim lights”. Blanche was broken as a whole, self destructive, and vulnerable. Discussing the themes of isolating darkness and fantasy v. reality helped me gain knowledge that by rejecting the truthyou hurt yourself more than ever, and false happiness creates a self destructive human being.