A streetcar named desire

A “Streetcar Named Desire” is a classic American drama written by a classic American writer, Tennessee Williams. Born in 1911, in Columbus, Mississippi, Williams went on to graduate from the University of Iowa in 1938. He achieved his first successes with the production of two plays, The Glass Menagerie (1945) and A Streetcar Named Desire (1947). In 1947, he won a Pulitzer Prize for A Streetcar Named Desire. When analyzing the main character of the story, Blanche Dubois, it is …

…shows how desperate she is for affection. Turning to a fifteen-year-old boy is not only morally wrong, but it is also illegal. The same thing caused her to lose her teaching job. Blanche Dubious is a very complex character. On the outside she appears to be a stand-up classy woman, but on the inside she is a trouble, lonely soul. Looking beyond the literal text and analyzing the symbolism makes her that much more complex.