Robert Frost poems, "A Road Not Taken" and "Mending Wall" and Tennessee.
Williams play "A Streetcar Named Desire" explore similar ideas and concepts to one.
another only both vary in how the message is received by the audience due to the.
form in which the texts are written.Frost's poetry and William's play both explore the.
choices we are faced with, the barriers we put up between people and how our.
decisions ultimately affect our future. .
A Streetcar Named Desire tells the story of Blanche Dubois's arrival to stay with her.
sister Stella Kowalski who claims to be given a leave of absense from her teaching.
job to recover from her nervous breakdown. Blanche disapproves of her sister's.
current station in life and believes she could do much better than Stanley. The central.
conflict of the play is the emotional tug of war between the raw, brute, sensulautity of.
Stanley and the fragile, crumbling gentility of Blanche. Blanche, during her stay finds.
male company with Stanley's friend, Mitch. But Blanche's past catches up with her.
and her lies and deceit are found out by all and her relationship with Mitch soon ends.
The last straw for Blanche is when Stanley rapes her while Stella is in hospital having.
her baby. Blanche, after this is never the same and Stella refusing to believe.
Blanche's story sends her to a mental institution.
Like "A Road Not Taken", A Streetcar Named Desire deals with the aspect of choice.
and the decisions that we make and how these decisions "make all the difference.".
Where Frost generalises this issue in his more simplistic form of writing , William.
explores these ideas through the characters of the play. This is evident throughout the.
play where the characters are faced with many choices and have to deal with the.
decisons they make. Probably the most important decision of all made by any of the.
characters is that of Stellas. In the final stages of the play she is left with the dilemma.
of who to believe out of her husband and her sister and what she should do about the.