Neurotic Trauma in Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire

This study examines trauma in Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire. The study highlights the causes of trauma and how they control the characters behaviors in the play. The focus of the study will be on three interrelated causes of trauma. First, negative events and their relative impact upon the characters psyches will be elaborated in terms of their feelings and emotions. Second, the characters neurotic demeanors will be explicated as a symptoms of their trauma as a result of bad events. Third, depression will be also pursued as a definitive feature of the characters trauma because they have nasty experience, especially when they are set in undesired relationship with other people. Therefore, the studys methodology concentrates on two literary components of the selected play. The first one will be the thematic manifestation of trauma depicted in the plot. The characters feelings and emotions will be the second component that will be analyzed as reflections of their traumatic psychic states.