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A Streetcar Named Desire : Analysis

From the beginning, the three main characters of Streetcar are in a state of tension.
Williams establishes that the apartment is small and confining, the weather is hot and
oppressive, and the characters have good reason to come into conflict.
The South, old and new, is an important theme of the play. Blanche and her sister come
from a dying world. The life and pretensions of their world are becoming a thing of memory:
to drive home the point, the family mansion is called "Belle Reve," or Beautiful Dream. The
old life may have been something beautiful, but it is gone forever. Yet Blanche clings to
pretensions of aristocracy. She is now as poor as Stanley and Stella, but she cannot help but
look down on the humble Kowalski apartment. Stanley tells her that she'll probably see him as
"the unrefined type." The differences between them, however, are more complex and volatile
than a matter of refinement.......

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