One of the most deeply explored motifs in Tennessee Williams' play "A Streetcar Named Desire" is the idea of ​​illusion and living in an imaginary world. Throughout the play, the reader sees from the point of view of the lady of the old south, Miss Blanche Dubois, as she slowly loses her sanity as her lewd past is revealed, crushing her personal image of sophistication and purity. Her slow descent into a fantasy world stands in stark contrast to her sister's husband, Stanley Kowalski, with his down-to-earth realism acting as a contributing factor to Blanche's deteriorating mental state. Tennessee Williams focuses heavily on portraying the idea that everyone sees the world in a different way and often chooses to deal with their problems using illusion. This way, their problems seem non-existent and they feel better about their lives. This theme becomes one of the major conflicts throughout the play and by constructing both his setting and his characters to reflect this theme and the idea of ​​illusion, Williams brings his characters to life and shows that even the people from different backgrounds cope in the same way. . Stanley Kowalski's character is portrayed as a down-to-earth person, only believing in things he can visually see, feel, and hear around him, but he suffers from the illusion of power. The wife of Stanley and dear sister of Blanche Dubois, Stella Kowalski uses both illusion and reality as she feels best suited to the moment and often creates a lie in her most dire circumstances. Stella's older sister, the missing southern princess Blanche Dubois, weaves a world of imagination around her to protect what little remains of her shattered life. These three...... middle of paper...... to be honorable and respectable. His wife Stella Kowalski who lives in a world of superseding reality yet strongly disagrees with her own ideas, which ultimately leads to her losing her sister. The final character, Blanche Dubois, has become so engulfed in her own lies and stories, because of everything she has lost and the pressure of living with Stanley, that she has lost contact between the real world and what she had invented. The play very strongly exposes the idea of ​​illusion, showing how each individual uses their own fantasies to create solutions to their flaws. It became clear that no matter how the characters were raised or where they currently are, they all solved their problems through illusion. Ultimately, it was very apparent how overuse of the illusion was detrimental to the characters themselves and led to much bigger problems..