»A Streetcar Named Desire« by Tennessee Williams

A Streetcar Named Desire
By Tennessee Williams 

Blanche DuBois is a sophisticated, not quite young Southern beauty from a good family, and she is forced to leave her hometown Laurel. All her family members have died, one after the other. Belle Rêve, the homestead of her once wealthy family, has been foreclosed. She even lost her job as a teacher.
Needing a place to stay, Blanche comes to stay with her younger sister Stella in New Orleans. Right at her arrival, she is appalled. Her sister and her husband Stanley Kowalski live in a small one-bedroom-flat in a rundown apartment building. Blanche does not even try to keep her composure and talks deprecatingly about Stella’s living conditions.

Blance is even more shocked when she meets Stanley who is all muscle and flaunted masculinity, who is coarse with bad manners and distinctly prone to alcohol. Blanche makes sure he knows the he’s beneath her. But her sister seems to submissive to him.  The strong aversion between smug Blance and animalistically proletarian Stanley grows and grows. The sophisticated woman thinks Stanley and his poker friends ─ with whom he drinks the nights away playing cards ─ crude and wild. When Blanche witnesses Stanley getting physically violent with his wife, she tries to convince Stella to leave him. Stanley eavesdrops on the conversation. From that point on he starts looking into Blanche’s past, looking for compromising facts ─ and he finds them. The image Blanche created of herself of the morally upright, cultivated lady could not be further from reality. Blanche’s ethereal nature turns out to be a mask of a hurt woman who cannot handle reality and breaks under its weight.

»A Streetcar Named Desire« by Tennessee Williams premiered in 1947 in New York and was later made into a film. Tennessee Williams was awarded with the Pulitzer Prize for his masterpiece. He processes eclectic and timeless topis such as the battle of the sexes or the nostalgia of a cultural elite who considers itself superior to the working class that it cannot prevail against. Tennessee Williams refrained from siding with any of his characters in their conflicts. 

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