It is the masterful portrayal of this age-old conflict between the sexes that serves as the dramatic centerpiece in both Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire- and Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House."" ... This contradiction fuels much of the conflict in the play. ... In these two plays, Williams and Ibsen display the universal familiarity with male/female conflict, and use those conflicts in ways that are subtle, original and effective in advancing the plot of the story. ... Bloom, Harold, ed., Tennessee Williams (1986); Miller, Jordan Yale, Twentieth Cent...

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However this could be due to the fact that Gertrude is, more than any other character in the play, the antithesis of her son, Hamlet. ... The disjointed nature of familial relationships, as shown in the other two texts, has an equal presence in Williams' "Streetcar." ... Despite the suspicion presented Blanche's character; Williams hints at the fact she may be hiding something from her sister. ... Therefore arguing that Williams presents love, in this case familial, to be destructive. ... This is not accurate to the play as in the play, she returns to the apartment after blanche is ...

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