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Original Title:	A Streetcar Named Desire
ISBN:	0822210894 (ISBN13: 9780822210894)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Blanche DuBois, Stanley Kowalski, Stella Kowalski, Harold Mitchel, Eunice Hubbel, Steve Hubbel, Pablo Gonzales, Negro Woman, Baby, Matron, Doctor, Mexican Woman, Young Collector
Setting:	New Orleans, Louisiana(United States)
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1948), New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best American Play (1948)

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

Paperback | Pages: 107 pages

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Title	:	A Streetcar Named Desire
Author	:	Tennessee Williams
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 107 pages
Published	:	December 1st 1952 by Dramatists Play Service (first published 1947)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Young Adult. Fiction. Childrens. Middle Grade

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The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman and The Crucible), and Williams’ essay “The World I Live In.”

It is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continue to have the same power and impact as when they first appeared—57 years after its Broadway premiere, Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire is one of those plays. The story famously recounts how the faded and promiscuous Blanche DuBois is pushed over the edge by her sexy and brutal brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski. Streetcar launched the careers of Marlon Brando, Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter, and Karl Malden, and solidified the position of Tennessee Williams as one of the most important young playwrights of his generation, as well as that of Elia Kazan as the greatest American stage director of the ’40s and ’50s.

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There's a sort of invisible thread from Madame Bovary to A Streetcar Named Desire, which in its route gets tied up in a hot whorehouse and wraps vainly around the cosmetics section of a pharmacy in the Southern United States before knotting at its terminus in New Orleans. I find it almost criminal how often people mistake Blanche duBois' whimsy for female frailty, for I think she is an almost unnaturally strong character; far, far moreso than her timid sister Stella. Perhaps it is because her

PopSugar Challenge 2015 SPILLOVER (because I am a challenge failure, oops.) Category: A Play 4 StarsWhat a deliciously depressive way to commence my 2016 reading year! After hearing and reading about A Streetcar Named Desire (*glares at Losing It*, seriously authors please stop putting massive spoilers for classic works in your books. PLEASE?! I didnt get spoiled mind because I already knew, but still!)for many a year I have finally sat down and read it. And what I have to say is this: what the

Tennessee Williams writes some brilliant dialogue and distributes it perfectly across an explosive cast of characters. All of it makes for some crazy intense scenes.So while it's natural to imagine this would be an awesome play (which I can't wait to see some day), the experience of reading it isn't, or at least for me it wasn't. Seems like this was clearly written to be performed not read, like most plays are...

I had some idea, from the hokey friendliness of the name "Tennessee Williams," and the cute titles of his plays - "Streetcar Named Desire"! "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof!" - they sound like musicals - I had an idea that these would be friendly. Pop culture. In the great telephone game of pop culture, what I ended up hearing was Marlon Brando yelling "STELLA!", which sounded pretty goofy to me.That was the wrong impression. This play is dark. I love the mix of realism and poetry here. Stanley is almost

A mentally ill woman in the 1940s does not stand a chance. My heartfelt sympathies to Blanche DuBois; imagine marrying a closeted gay man, catching him in the act- that's how you find out by the way- and when confronted about it, he immediately proceeds to blow his brains out, literally. Also, you've lost your home so you have no place live. Broken and alone you turn to your sister (the only living member of your family) for help, but, alas, she's married to Stanley Kowalski, one of the most



Don't be fooled by the beginning. This book is about Blanche, pure and simple.We have Stella, who ought to know better and does know better, but doesn't act on that knowledge. Not for herself- she refuses to accept her husband is a violent, worthless cad- and not for her sister Blanche, who she seems to love above all else. Who would rather lock up her sister than believe what her sister said: that Stella's husband raped her. Oh, she knows perfectly well; that's clear enough. But it's just