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If we have been living in the fantasy world, then we must have lived in great pain in the world in which we originally lived.
It is precisely because of this that we will imagine another world in our minds to accommodate ourselves.
And when someone pokes our illusions in front of our faces and makes us face reality, we will find that life is still painful.
Today, we bring you a classic work "Desire StreetCar".
One evening in early May, a new woman came to a street in the poor neighborhood of New Orleans.
She looked at the building in front of her with an unbelievable shock on her face, and her appearance was even more out of place with the scene here.
Dressed in an elaborate white dress, a soft skinny vest, a pearl necklace and earrings, and white gloves and hat, she looked like she was coming to a summer tea party or cocktail party in the garden district of New Orleans.
The woman's name is Blanche, born in a famous family, has always lived an elegant and decent life, but now the family is in the middle of the road, and can only be wronged and complete.
She came to the poor because her sister Stella lived here. She had come to seek her sister's help, but she had never thought that her sister lived in such a mixed place.
Sitting in her sister's house, Blanche's posture was extremely stiff, slightly shrugging her shoulders, her legs pressed together, her hands clutching her purse, as if she felt very cold.
After a while, the blank look in her eyes disappeared and she began to slowly look at her surroundings:
The room was small, but you could see two rooms, there was no clear partition, the first place to enter was originally a kitchen, but there was a folding bed for Blanche, the back room was a bedroom, and the innermost narrow door led to the bathroom.
Blanche didn't like a house like this, but she now had to live here on her sister's side.
She lived in a traditional landlord family in the South, but when the Civil War broke out and southern culture declined, Blanche lost everything she had to survive, her parents died, and her ancestral home was taken away.
Now with nowhere to go, he went to his sister's house, who lived in the north.
She thought she could start a new life, but when she came to this place, she was dumbfounded.
What made her even more unbearable was her brother-in-law, Stanley, who behaved vulgarly and was an alcoholic and gambler, and in Blanche's eyes, this man was simply useless.
She didn't understand why Stella fell in love with such a man, so from the moment she came to Stella's house, she complained about Stanley's indecentness and vulgarity in front of her sister all the time.
She hopes that her sister can relive the elegant life of the past with her.
But it didn't take long for Blanche to find a man she liked here, Mickey.
Mitch was a friend of Stanley's, and they often gathered at Stanley's house to play poker and drink together.
Over time, Blanche fell in love with Mickey, and Mickey was also impressed by Blanche's beauty, or perhaps, Blanche fell in love with not Mickey, but the sense of stability that Mickey brought to himself.
She was always desperate to have Mitch marry her and settle herself down so that she would no longer be a burden to others. However, they could not come together.
And this originated when Mickey learned all of Blanche's lies.
Just as Blanche hates Stanley, Stanley hates women like Blanche, and she thinks that Blanche loves vanity, pretends to be fake, and lives in fantasy all day long.
Although she has a lot of clothes and jewelry, it is basically cheap goods, and even the only diamond that looks valuable is fake.
What makes Stanley even more intolerable is that Blanche clearly lives in a poor world, but he always likes to advertise himself as a "big miss"
He was disgusted that Blanche had covered naked light bulbs with paper lamps, and even more disgusted by Blanche's use of purity to describe himself, and Blanche had set his mind on his honest brother Mickey.
In order to let Mickey see the true face of Blanche, Stanley told Mickey all the information he had privately investigated.
It turned out that Blanche didn't just come to New Orleans because of her family's fall.
At that time, Blanche was just twenty-seven years old, and she was still working as an English teacher in middle school.
She tricked Stella into teaching at school herself, but the principal saw that she was too tired and let her take a vacation, and she came to Stella's side.
But in fact, Blanche got a seventeen-year-old high school student, and the student's father found out and told the principal that the principal had expelled Blanche from the school in order to cover up the scandal.
Since then, Blanche has been living alone in a small hotel, and she can't seem to find out what she really wants.
So she frantically sold her body in a small hotel and mixed with all kinds of men.
According to Stanley's investigation, almost all the men on the street where Blanche lived had unspoken relationships with Blanche.
Her reputation on that street was like that of a Hollywood star, and everyone knew about her scandal, and it was in this situation that she came to New Orleans.
Blanche told a lot of lies, made up many dreams for herself, and stubbornly lived in her own lies, and when Mickey knew all the facts and went to ask Blanche, Blanche was still lying.
At that moment, Mickey's inner love for Blanche was completely shattered, he thought that Blanche was the most pure and flawless woman he had ever seen in this world, he did not think that Blanche was so swaying, he was angry,
As a result, he no longer respected Blanche's wishes as before, and forcibly had a relationship with Blanche.
Blanche's love disappeared.
She suddenly remembered the boy she had married when she was 16 years old. It was at that time that she discovered love, and her world, in that moment, was suddenly illuminated by the boy and alone for him.
But she was deceived. The boy was neurotic, he was weak, he was gentle and didn't look like a man, but Blanche got caught up in it, and she didn't hesitate to marry the boy.
Unexpectedly, not long after getting married, she was in the room and saw the boy and a male friend who was older than him in bed.
After that, all three of them pretended nothing had happened and drove to the Moon Lake Casino together, drunk and laughing all the way.
They danced a famous polka dance song.
Just as the dance was halfway through, the boy Blanche married suddenly threw her off and ran out of the casino, and after a while they heard a gunshot.
The boy had committed suicide, and no one knew why he had committed suicide, but Blanche remembered.
That's because, on the dance floor, she couldn't help but say to the boy, "I see!" I understand! You make me sick....."
In Blanche's heart, the boy's death stemmed from his own disgust.
She had thought of the boy as the god who gave her the light of life, but the moment she bumped into the boy's scandal, God fell, and the fanatical love disappeared, and in its place became endless disgust.
After that, Blanche began a life of indulgence, she hoped to find the light of life in her desires, but she still could not fill the nothingness in her heart.
So she chose to look for her sister, and she longed to find a new life in her sister's home.
She began to lie and beautify herself, making up for herself one dream after another that she had never had before. But it all shattered.
Blanche came to the paradise of her fantasy with her costume jewelry, where she thought she would have a separate room with beautiful music, dim lights, and all the beautiful objects of her fantasy.
But the reality is that she lives in a place where drunkards gather, which is crowded and dirty.
She didn't think about such a place, she thought that meeting Mickey was to find redemption, she felt that she could go with Mickey to live a happy life, but Mickey abandoned her.
Blanche's fantasy thus went from a diamond to a pile of fragments.
Blanche's spirit began to drift, but even so, Stanley did not let Blanche go.
He took advantage of the night when Stella gave birth to rape Blanche. After that, Blanche's spirit was completely confused.
Soon after, Stanley persuaded Blanche's sister, Stella, to send Blanche to a mental hospital.
In Stanley's world, only when Blanche leaves them, they can go back in time and make happy sounds in the night, and they don't have to care if there is anyone on the other side of the room, they can enjoy their own night.
The day the people in the mental hospital came, Blanche was very happy, because she thought she was going on vacation, taking a boat trip along the Caribbean Sea.
But when she saw two unknown people standing in the doorway, she flinched, and she thought to herself, that was not the person she expected.
She whispered to Stella, "I forgot something, I forgot something..." Then she ran back into the house.
Stanley knew that Blanche was dodging, so he pulled off the paper lantern that surrounded the light bulb.
After the paper lantern was torn off, the naked light bulb shot out a judgment-like glare, and Blanche suddenly cried out, as if Stanley had torn off not the paper lantern, but her dress.
Soon after, Blanche calmed down, and she held out her hands to the doctor and followed the doctor through the kitchen toward the door, letting the doctor lead her forward as if she were blind.
She left New Orleans without looking back, as if she had found her final destination.
Devoured by desire, living in fantasy Blanche, is the ending running towards tragedy?
In fact, at the beginning, the author has already metaphorically described Blanche's tragic context, carrying Blanche's train, its name is "desire", the place where it stops is "cemetery", and the destination is indeed "heaven".
So, a person who can't control his desires and can't escape reality, the ending can't end in comedy after all.