A Streetcar named Desire
Tennessee Williams
154 pages
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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.
My Opinion:
This was a sad novel/play. I did not expect most of the plot. Everything went downhill since Blanche came to stay with her sister. Of course, nothing was perfect in Stella's world as she was married to an abusive husband. However because Blanche arrived, her mental stability deteriorated faster. None of the three characters needed to be by themselves. They were all a little insane. All three let their desires rule them, but as it conflicted with another's all resulted was chaos.
Although the play was sad, it also gave a look into what happens when humans desires rule them. A desire all three shared was sex, but behind that affection. Blanche used sex to fill up a hole caused by Allan's death. Sex was what kept Stanley and Stella's marriage together. It also ruled over Stanley's mind causing him to be animalistic.
A lesson from this play is to not let desires rule over you or else it will take you to Elysian Fields (death).
