The comedies A Streetcar Named Desire and A View from the Bridge are both plays focused mainly on the theme of the domination of female characters by males. Where A Streetcar Named Desire is Southern Gothic, A View from a Bridge is a tragedy that is actually similar to Williams' work as both end tragically for the main character. Each playwright uses his or her own method and techniques to convey the message or point of view to audience members. In A Streetcar Named Desire, the Southern Gothic form offers readers its distinct build-up of tension in the play's scenes. . Over the course of the show, the structure closely follows the confrontation between Stanley and Blanche and the tension begins to build. As tension increases, the structure changes to compensate for the conflict. Tennessee Williams does this through the show's captions. One such example is when the playwright foretells future events in the play: "The boy [...] I'll get sick!" This cliff-hanger at the end of scene one suggests that Blanche has a mysterious past and prompts audience members to continue reading as they are curious about this sudden shock. Like most dramas similar to A Streetcar Named Desire, it follows common structural points: from exposition to epilogue. Williams structures the play into eleven different scenes, each with different time periods to show the play's progression from May to September. A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller is a typical Greek tragedy in which the protagonist dies. The difference between A Streetcar Named Desire and A View from the Bridge is that while A Streetcar Named Desire has no narrator in the play, A View from the Bridge has a narrator, Alfieri. Alfieri...... middle of the paper...... I reflect on how women were represented in the 1940s and how they were treated. Stanley's masculinity threatened Blanche's magical realism and reigned supreme over Stella. Williams' presentation of women was equally clear and effective due to the well-structured structure of his play and the genre of the play, a Southern Gothic play. On the other hand, Arthur Miller portrays the dominance of women in A View from the Bridge by using the narrator, Alfieri, to symbolize the connection between Italy and America after World War II. Miller used external analepsis to create that realistic feeling in all acts of the show. The structure of the play allows Alfieri's frequent intervals to express his opinion on current affairs and also allows the plot itself to have a flow that gives the play its identity as a Greek tragedy through the domination of women..