A Streetcar Named Desire (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Tennessee Williams
- First Published: 1947
- Type of Work: Play
- Genres: Realism, Drama, Tragedy
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Sex or sexuality, South or Southerners, Twentieth century, Marriage, 1940’s, Prostitution or prostitutes, Rape, New Orleans
- Locales: New Orleans, LA
On a streetcar named Desire, Blanche DuBois travels from the railroad station in New Orleans to a street named Elysian Fields, where her sister, Stella, pregnant and married to Stanley Kowalski, lives in a run-down apartment building in the old French Quarter. Having lost her husband, parents, teaching position, and old family home—Belle Reve in Laurel, Mississippi—Blanche has nowhere to turn but to her one remaining close relative.
Thirty years old, Blanche is emotionally and economically destitute. The most traumatic experience in her life was the discovery that her...
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