A Streetcar Named Desire
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A Streetcar Named Desire
by Authors:
Tennessee Williams
Released: 01 August, 1989
ISBN: 0451167783
Mass Market Paperback
Sales Rank: 15,459
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Customer Review #1:
 *A Streetcar named Desire*
"A Streetcar named Desire" is one of Tennessee Williams masterpieces,
published in 1947.
The play is about the Southern Belle Blanche duBois who comes to live with
her sister Stella in New Orleans. There she is confronted with her sisters
husband Stanley who wants to destroy Blanches life. The conflict between
Stanley and Blanche gets worse and it comes to a rape.
In the following scenes Stella has to decide whether she believes in her
sister or in Stanley.
The play gets more and more exciting and your interest will b e caught by
the development of the plot.
In his book Williams tries to assimilate his own life which was dominated by
his brutal father. Also the autobiographical aspect makes the play worth
reading.
Further I would recommend you to read the book because it contains numerous
themes which are still relavant today. So love, lonliness and cruelty play an
important role. Moreover easy and colloquial language is used.
All in all the play "A Streetcar named Desire" is really recommendable.
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Customer Review #2:
 The play is about lost innocence yielding to brute desire
The play shows us that what we have always dreamed is not always what we are. More importantly, it shows us that we cannot escape who we are, lest we devolve into a state of fantasy, living a beautiful dream when the world around us is a nightmare. Williams is one of the premier playwrights of our time. And yet he is seriously underrated in modern courses in literature and on the modern stage. His themes are universal and ageless in that they center upon the fall from innocence that all human beings suffer upon learning that humanity is not beautiful. It is brute and desirous and akin to the raunchy yet realistic world of Stanley Kowalski. Blanche Dubois cannot live without embracing desire, embracing Stanley. And yet, she can never accept that she must desire. For that reason, she descends into madness, more content with the illusion that life is a beautiful dream, a belle reve, instead of an imperfect lesson in death and loss.
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Customer Review #3:
Poignant.
"A Streetcar Named Desire" is such a raw and captivating play. With luxurious characters full of rage, lust, and refutation, youll be transported into the realm of Stanley, Stella, and Blanche, and youll never look back. Its interesting to see Tennessee Williams writing in this play and "The Glass Menagerie." I recommend.
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