A Streetcar Named Desire (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Tennessee Williams
- First Published: 1947
- Type of Work: Drama
- 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
The play begins with Blanche DuBois visiting her sister Stella and her brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski at their home in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Blanche says that she is there on vacation, but in fact she has lost the family mansion, Belle Reve, and her teaching position because of her sexual indiscretions, the last one with a 17-year-old boy.
Blanche is clearly an emotionally disturbed individual. When she was very young, she married a homosexual. When she found out, she accused him, and he shot himself. Afterwards she earned a reputation for sleeping with men...
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