A Streetcar Named Desire (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Tennessee Williams
- First Published: 1947
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Tragedy
- Time of Work: 1940’s
- Setting: New Orleans, Louisiana
- Principal Characters: Blanche DuBois, Stella Kowalski, Stanley, Steve Hubbell, Harold Mitchell (Mitch), Pablo Gonzales, Eunice Hubbell
- 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 Story:
Two streetcars, one named Desire, the other Cemeteries, brought Blanche DuBois on a spring afternoon to the Elysian Fields address of her sister Stella, whom she had not seen since Stella’s marriage to Stanley Kowalski. Blanche, dressed in a fluttering white garden party outfit, jarred with the shabbiness and menace of the neighborhood from her first appearance. The proprietress of the building admitted her to the Kowalski apartment a few minutes before Stella’s return. One of Blanche’s weaknesses became immediately apparent when, after a successful search for...
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