Image+In+America

Image in America is boils down entirely to perception. In the Street Car Named Desire Blanche has Mitch eating out of her hand and treating her like the upper class plantation owner that she pretends to be until his image of her is shocked and broken by the truth. The lesson that may be taken from this is two fold. First, it does not matter what the truth is as long as it is not reveled and second, everyone’s projected image is hiding something. Blanch was simply hiding something particularly different from what she was projecting.

We do however see these skeletons in peoples closets all the time. It takes next to nothing for a supreme court nominee or a political candidate to get become irrelevant. If they have just a hair out of line their chances suddenly plummet. President Obama found this out when attempting to appoint many of his cabinet members who had not been vetted thoroughly enough.