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A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams |
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| In the scene from Tennessee Williams’s play A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche is trying to convince her sister, Stella, to leave her abusive husband Stanley. Stella refuses because she says she loves Stanley, and Blanche responds with this passage about Desire, the name of the streetcar on which Blanche recently arrived in New Orleans. The conversation between the two sisters continues in a highly symbolic manner, with Williams’s characteristic themes of desire, guilt, repressed sexuality and spiritual torment being brought to the fore (recited by an actor). | |||||||
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