a streetcar named desire

             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 ...

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