? Comparison of Myron and Mitch In A Streetcar Named Desire, Mitch can be seen as bashful and restrained, more so towards others than Blanche. He appears to be more reverent towards Blanche, so much so that he wanted to marry her until towards the end of the play whereby Stanley makes it apparent to Mitch that Blanche is not as saintly as she portrays herself to be, thus Mitch telling her that he does not want to ‘marry her anymore’. It could be argued that due to most of the men in A Streetcar Named Desire having wed already, Mitch feels as though he has not yet fulfilled the idea of the ‘American Dream’. During the time that this play was written – 1947 – after WWII, the typical gender roles were interrupted as women were employed in factories, due to the men having gone to fight in the war. However, after the war – men were eager for gender roles to go back to the initial typically set way. This was recognized as ‘re-centering’. In this time there were several key aspects such as family, which established ones masculinity. Therefore, it could be argued that Blanche would have been the key to Mitch’s manliness, as he would have to provide for her and could soon start a family with her, and according to the ‘American Dream’, that he would like to fulfill, he would be the ‘breadwinner’. Due to the current state of being single and just caring for his mother, other men may see this as weak and unmanly of him. On the contrary, as Mitch is seen as undeveloped and incomplete due to his marital status in his society, in All New People, Zach Braff intentionally portrays Myron as both incomplete and undeveloped. This is shown through his calm and relaxed manner regarding his drug intake. The lack of control that he has is enforced when he describes himself – ‘I prefer Purveyor of Distractions’. By referring to drugs as ‘distractions’, it implies that Myron’s attitude towards drug consumption i