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…REALITY AND IMAGINATION Reality can be comforting or agonizing, it depends on who’s reality is in question. Tennessee Williams depicted reality and what it can do to people in The Pulitzer Prize winning play “A Streetcar Named Desire”. The story…

…Maya Angelou is an eccentric, remarkable woman who has contributed greatly to our nation. She was the first black and first woman streetcar conductor in San Francisco (during WWII). In 1960-1961, she was asked by Martin Luther King Jr. to be the northern…

…of Tateh prove to be much more useful than Father's desire for exploration. Despite his greater imagination Tateh lacks what Father has: money. More specifically, even though Tateh must overcome more challenges in America, he manages to eventually rise above…

…remarkably different to normal people. Throughout the book he seems rather content on living his own way and not being influenced by others. Blanche Dubious, from "A Streetcar Named Desire," is one great example of a person who is forced to be an outsider due…

…) and The Crucible (1953)” (Geisinger, 461), and Tennessee Williams, who created a world decaying with passion and sensuality in plays such as A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie (Geisinger, 461). During the 1960s, a strong ultramodern theatre movement…

…. Malcolm Little grew up as poor and did not have much parental support. His father was run over by a streetcar when he was six. Soon after his father's death, his mother was put in a mental hospital. He grew up in East Lansing and Boston. He was a pimp…

…grew up as poor and did not have much parental support. His father was run over by a streetcar when he was six. Soon after his father's death, his mother was put in a mental hospital. He grew up in East Lansing and Boston. He was a pimp, a hustler, drug user…

…on succeeding generations of actors as did Brando. Fully fifty years after he first scorched the screen as Stanley Kowalski in the movie version of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire," and a quarter-century after his last great performance as Colonel Kurtz…

…unethically, such as how to steal at Kresgels and how to split streetcar tickets so that one could be used twice, and how to smoke bubble pipes (pg.50). Duddy gets a thrill for doing wrong things, this is the only way he feels he gets attention. Duddy…

…in the altar of Laura's face have been snuffed out"(307). BIBLIOGRAPHY Williams, Tennessee. The Glass Menagerie, in A Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays, ed. E.Martin Browne, St. Ives, 1987. Bigsby, C W E. Modern American Drama 1945-1990…