Blue Jasmine, movie by Woody Allen is a successful adaptation of the play “Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams. Blue Jasmine presents Jasmine, main character, living in an entitled world who falls into nothingness due to the affair and the investment scheme of her husband. She, therefore, moves into her adopted sister, Ginger’s apartment situated in the downscale San Francisco. In hopes of starting a fresh life, Jasmine enters a job in a Dentist Office; however, she encounters frustration from the patients and harassment from her boss, Dr. Flickr. Jasmine finally quits the job, and instead seeks to find a man for a peace in her life. Although she finds a man, Dwight, she loses him due to her false reality and lies just like Blanche, …show more content…
Blanche’s husband cheats on her with another man. Due to this shock, Blanche desires men her husband’s age (during his death) to validate her sexuality and her appearance. Due to this situation, Blanche copes her loneliness through men. To further destroy Blanche and lead her to complete loneliness, Stanley verbally abuses and rapes her. This turns Blanche completely mentally broke. Although like Blanche, Jasmine loses her husband too, she does not desire men like Blanche does because she did not lose him due to homosexuality. Allen rejects to bring in homosexuality as the main destruction to Jasmine;s life because homosexualty is accepted in our modern society. Like Stanley, Augie and Chilli do not prey on her because, like Blanche, Jasmine does not show any sexual interest on them. However, Allen derives a way to drive Jasmine to a complete breakdown in a similar process as Blanche. Due to the contemporary era, the rape scene does not go according to the character and the theme of the movie; therefore, Allen removes the rape and instead inputs Jasmine’s son, Danny’s verbal abuse towards Jasmine. Danny claims “[he] hates [Jasmine] more” (Allen) for what she did to Hal. Jasmine from the beginning had ruined herself, but she still had hope to find her son. But when Danny disowns her, she loses her final straw and ends up breaking down in a same way as Blanche did in the play. Although Allen modifies the scenes from the play, it perfectly fits according to the mindset of the character during the modern