Question

In Tennessee Williams's play A Streetcar Named Desire, the protagonist, Blanche, tells her sister:

"I never was hard or self-sufficient enough. . . . I've run for protection, Stella, from under one leaky roof to another leaky roof„because it was storm„all storm . . . "
Which theme of the play might these lines reflect?

a woman's dependence on men

the isolation of thinking people

the hardships heroic people face

a woman's struggle against men

Answer 1

In Tennessee William's play A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche tells her sister those words and the theme of the play that those lines reflect are "a woman's dependence on men."