A Streetcar Named Desire (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Tennessee Williams
- First Published: 1947
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Tragedy
- Time of Work: 1940’s
- Setting: The French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana
- 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
Characters Discussed
Blanche DuBois (dew-BWAH), a desperate, neurotic woman who goes to New Orleans to stay with her younger sister Stella after losing her home and job in Mississippi. Blanche is haunted by guilt over the death of her young husband, who committed suicide after she confronted him about his homosexuality. She then became a nymphomaniac, scandalizing her hometown and losing her high school teaching job because of her relationship with a teenage boy. With no money, no home, and fading youth, Blanche clings to romantic illusions to sustain her self- image, even as...
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