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Y’all I’m depressed, stressed, and angry! What else is new :)

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You’re friendly neighborhood loser here. My mom keeps calming me Dusty because of what happened to my poor boy, Peter Parker, and keeps referencing the FGL song, Dirt. I’m pretty sad right now. Well, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk, have a good day! 💗🖤💗🖤💗🖤💗

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Conflict in the Elysian Fields?

Okay so I’m in English class right now and I just had to get this our of my head because there’s no way in hell I’m actually going to say all of this in real life in class. *shudders*. We’re reading a wonderful play by Tennessee Williams called Streetcar Named Desire, where there’s tons of family drama and abuse and whatnot. This is all caught up in a post-war America that’s still trying to adjust with modernization and racial co-existence.

Blanche is basically the princess of the play, and lives a very opulent life. She enjoys fur coats, pearls, and puffy evening gowns. This transition from old to new (modernization) is certainly a shock for her, but more than anything arriving in the rather down and out neighborhood that her sister lives in was what drove her over the edge. And yet, you may ask, why is Blanche even there? This is where things get interesting, because she’s only there out of financial necessity. She has nowhere else to stay, and must ‘sink’ to living in the downtrodden area that her sister lives in.

Now where do the Elysian Fields come in? Elysium is the final resting place for heroic souls. Can you already sense the irony here? Most in my class would disagree, but I think there’s room for heroism in the district of downtown New Orleans. This was the house where Blanche watches her sister get domestically abused. This was the house where Blanche lied about (almost) everything- her age, her love life (she lied about having a rich yacht owner boyfriend, for heaven’s sake) , and her wealth. This was also the house where Blanche was (spoiler) raped. Where in the elaborate lace costumes and spilt talcum powder is there possibly room for heroics, you ask? And why on earth would Williams liken this place to the Elysian fields?

I think there’s plenty of heroism if you look at it, but it took me a good four or five reads to really understand what made this house Elysium. Blanche has a drinking problem (and a lying problem, and an insecurity problem), Stanley’s got a wife-beating misogyny problem, Stella (Blanche’s sister) has a bad case of being weak, and of course all of us onlookers and readers have a judging problem. There is so much heroism in all of these raw flaws. There is kindness and love if you look hard enough. Blanche’s insecurity manifests itself with her lies, and Stanley’s insecurity manifests itself with violent shows of masculinity. Stella’s inactivity and passiveness is simply her needing to please everyone. These are all characters struggling to find their identities, grasping for goodwill in a place where it’s seemingly absent. Look past the image of Stanley as the typical macho brute. Look beyond Blanche as the shallow delicate liar. Look beyond Stella as the weak and easily swayed wife. Anyone in an America that is economically, socially and ideologically changing would have had the same inner conflicts to find their identity, and Williams has used personal conflicts within and between the characters to act as manifestations of this universal conflict. This is what I think the true message of the play is.

Trouble in paradise? Well, there was no paradise to begin with. There’s always conflict in Elysium.

I'm done. I'm so stressed out it's ridiculous. I can barely sleep at night no matter what time I wake up. I dread going to my job. I'm being completely irrational over stupid situations I know I don't need to worry about. I have no motivation to go anywhere with friends unless I'm forced too or already promised them I'd be there. I feel like my boyfriend doesn't care even though I know he truly does care and love me and that I'm just being a bitch whose life is spiraling down the drain. I'm done fighting with work. I'm done having promises broken. I'm done being nice to people who just turn around and talk about me and stab me in the back. I feel like I'm about to break at any given moment and I don't know what to do anymore.

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