In Tennessee Williams's play A Streetcar Named Desire, the protagonist, Blanche, tells her sister:

"I never was hard or self-sufficient enough. . . . I've run for protection, Stella, from under one leaky roof to another leaky roof„because it was storm„all storm . . . "

Which theme of the play might these lines reflect?


a woman's dependence on men


the isolation of thinking people


the hardships heroic people face


a woman's struggle against men