A Streetcar Named Desire, By Ulrich Boser

To keep ourselves emotionally healthy is the most important thing in our daily life. As intelligent creatures, we’ve figured out many ways to avoid mental breakdown. Telling lies is one of the most popular methods people use to stay sane. Although people say that lying is wrong in our personal lives, we know it is necessary for our survival. Lying is the only solution to protect our mental state. This experience is not only reflected in our daily lives, but argued in literature as well.

In the play “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams, several characters show that lies can protect themselves from being hurt. One example is when Blanche, the one who had many intimacies with men and got kicked out from her town, tried to lie to everyone when she came to a new environment. Blanche asserts that “I don’t tell truth, I tell what ought to be truth”(145) to express how she uses lies to build a

In “We're All Lying Liars: Why People Tell Lies, and Why White Lies Can Be OK” written by Ulrich Boser, Boser demonstrates how white lies contribute to communication in everyday life. People tell lies constantly, and it is pervasive to say something against their own will during a conversation. Robert Feldman, the psychologist from the University of Massachusetts, asserts that "we use lies to grease the wheels of social discourse". From his point of view, lies prevent people from hurting others. One example of this is when your friend wears a shirt that you think is tacky but since you don’t want to speak plainly which could hurt him, you tell him it looks stylish. This shows how white lies can benefit us when we try to protect our lovers or friends during socialization. It is impossible to remove lying from our society because language can easily hurt someone but lies can fix this problem. Besides polishing our communication, lying also offers parents a better chance to teach their children about