The Representation of Tennessee Williams' Psychological Conflict in "A Streetcar Named Desire"

Homosexuality and deviant personality are the pivotal points of Tennessee Williams’ works. His works were always fraught with psychological depth wh was believed due to his being homosexual. It is believed that the formation of h sexual orientation and feminine personality were rooted in his childhood traum In A Streetcar Named Desire, the conflict being experienced by Stella Kowalsk almost the same with the confusion being experienced by Tennessee Williams during his life. This is what makes Stella’s character as important as the other t main characters, Blanche Dubois and Stanley Kowalski in dealing with the analysis of Williams’ psychological conflict. Therefore, this thesis also incorporates Freudian psychoanalysis. Freudian analysis assumes that the mind has two components – conscious and unconscious. Psychoanalysis’ role in literature is to reveal important information such as the motivations and hidden intentions which is essential for the purpose of understanding characters on a deeper level.