A street Car Named Desire

All I can say to the end of "A Street Car named Desire" is WOW!! That was an extremely difficult decision to make. I don' t know if I could choose my husband over my sister especially when the accusation was rape. I have to say that Blanche is a bit nutty through out the play, but I think the rape was what pushed her over the edge.

As I learned what happened with her husband I understood why she lied so much because the truth is what killed him. Then on top of it all she is living with a crazy amount of guilt. Her life was kind of rough she got married at sixteen, finds out her husband is gay, then drives him to kill himself, loses the family home and then all that stuff that proceeds that. I found her a little over dramatic at times like in the scene with Mitch on page 664 "Eureka! Honey, you open the door while I take a last look at the sky. I'm looking for the Pleiades, the seven sisters, but the girls are not out tonight. Oh yes they are, there they are! God bless them! All in a bunch going home from their little bridge party... Y'get the door open? Good boy! I guess you - want to go now..." I just could see her hanging kind of over the rail of the steps, yelling. http://www.naic.edu/~gibson/pleiades/pleiades_myth.html
The link above is about the cluster of stars called Pleiades you can read the story on that link, but a brief synopsis is that the girls are the half sisters of Hyades. They were seen and wanted by the hunter Orion to the extent that Zeus changed the girls into birds and placed them in the sky to protect then when Orion died he also placed him in pursuit. I just wanted to know what the real story was compared to Blanche's view of it.

Zora Hurston

I am really enjoying "Their Eyes Were Watching God" I have already read Monday and Wednesday reading. Janie is a relate able character, she is a strong woman. If I wanted something to read I would not have picked this book myself and I am always a little scared by assigned reading because they are "the classic" and tend to be boring, but this is very good. The language is difficult, but once I read for a few chapters I started getting to the point that I reading it fluency. I was wondering how much of "Their Eyes Were Watching God" is true or based on things that happened in her life. I did read the information in our text about her and see that her father was the mayor of Eatonville. So maybe Jody/Joe was based on her father and Janie is loosely based on her mother. You can defiantly tell that Zora lived in Eatonville she describes the people and the town so well.

Janie seems unhappy with Joe because he is controlling, but she stays with him. I didn't understand why, seeing that she left her first husband so willingly. Another thing I didn't understand was why she could just leave her first husband and marry another without a divorce! Why is that?? Doesn't that make her marriage with Jody null and void?? That confused me. Jody was not a like able character. I just didn't like him, he seems like a smooth talker who gets what ever he wants. Janie is a good example of this he got her to run off with him, considered her a trophy wife and then in the end she was just a way to look like a man. At the end of his life he doesn't even trust her and wont take food from her and wont even allow her in his bedroom. He is just a mean power hungry man and I think he got what he deserved in the end.

I thought it was kind of interesting that the chapters talking about Eatonville where focused on the men of the town and more specifically Jody. It demonstrates Janie and the rest of the women's influence on the town. They are unimportant. I felt that Janie was pushed too far into the background at times, but I guess in shows who Janie was in relationship to Jody and the men towns folk. As for the women other then Janie they are literally no existent except the occasionally conversation between Janie and Pheoby.