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Themes, Motifs, and Symbols Themes Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work. Fantasy's Inability to Overcome Reality - Although Williams's protagonist in A Streetcar Named Desire is the romantic Blanche DuBois, the play is a work of social realism. Blanche explains to Mitch that she fibs because she refuses to accept the hand fate has dealt her. Lying to herself and to others allows her to make life appear as it should be rather than as it is. Stanley, a practical man firmly grounded in the physical world, disdainsBlanche's fabrications and does everything he can to unravel them. The antagonistic relationship between Blanche and Stanley is a struggle between appearances and reality. It propels the play's plot and creates an overarching tension. Ultimately, Blanche's attempts to remake her own and Stella's existences-to rejuvenate her life and to save Stella from a life with Stanley-fail. One of...

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