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If there was ever a playwright to display women as helpless, male-dependent fools, Tennessee Williams was that man. His plays A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof involve women who are weak and progressively fall apart because of the men in their lives, or lack thereof for that matter. Blanche, the main character of A Streetcar Named Desire, and Maggie, from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, display Williams’ view of women’s dependence on men. Blanche bases her every action on the opposite sex, which leads to several skanky relations. She stays out of the li