A Streetcar Named Desire

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A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams is known for
his powerfully written psychological dramas. Most of his
works are set in the southern United States and they usually
portray neurotic people who are victims of their own
passions, frustrations, and loneliness. The play represents the
conflict between the sensitive, neurotic Blanche DuBois and
the crude, animalistic Stanley Kowalski. Blanche visits the
home of her sister, Stella, in New Orleans and that is when
Stanley started picking at her, almost testing her. Before she
had met Stanley, she told her sister of how their plantation
had been lost due to the costs of paying for the funerals of
many family members. There was not enough money for her
to keep the plantation. While Blanche bathed after her
arrival, Stanley came home. Stella had told him what had
happened and he immediately insisted that Blanche was
swindling them. He hinted that Blanche had sold the
plantation in order to buy beautiful furs and jewelry. He went
through Blanche’s trunk while she bathed, Stella insisted he
stop. He was looking for sale papers from the plantation.
After Blanche was finished bathing, Stella was outside, so
Stanley started questioning Blanche. She insisted that she
had nothing to hide from him and let him go through all
historical papers from Belle Reve, the plantation. While living
with Stella and Stanley, Blanche had met a man named
Mitch, who she started dating. She liked him a lot but she
hid many things from him. Firstly, she hid secrets of her first
lover, her husband Allan Grey. Every time she thought of
him, she thought of how he killed himself and she heard the
polka which played in the background. She did not want to
speak of this to Mitch. After Allan’s death, Blanche used to
go to the Tarantula Arms hotel where she would have
intimacies with strangers. She did it because she felt it would
fill her empty heart. She did not want to tell Mitch because
she wanted him to respect her. Blanche was very careful to
hide her looks too. She felt that she was old looking and
tried to avoid bright lights from glaring down on her. She
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