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    A Streetcar Named Desire‚ by Tennessee Williams‚ is riddled with symbolism. The symbols found in the play include masculinity‚ light‚ bathing‚ liquor‚ white‚ and much more. Each symbol can be interpreted with a profound underlying meaning. However‚ the most prominent symbol that drastically changed the play’s plot was the Varsouviana Polka. This instrumental tune manifested her guilty conscience and became her ultimate demise. Through the art of symbols‚ Williams narrated the tragedy of Blanche’s

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    Blanche‚ Stella’s older sister‚ until recently a high school English teacher in Laurel‚ Mississippi. She arrives in New Orleans a loquacious‚ witty‚ arrogant‚ fragile‚ and ultimately crumbling figure. Blanche once was married to and passionately in love with a tortured young man. He killed himself after she discovered his homosexuality‚ and she has suffered from guilt and regret ever since. Blanche watched parents and relatives‚ all the old guard‚ die off‚ and then had to endure foreclosure on the

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    Patrick Frampus Professor Anne Dewey English 202 2 July 2014 Eunice in A Streetcar Named Desire In Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire he creates many minor characters that have a huge underlying significance in the plot. All of the minor characters have huge impacts on Stella‚ Stanley‚ and Blanche‚ all of whom are main characters. Eunice is both Stella’s friend and neighbor who often helps Stella when the going gets rough. Not only is Eunice very helpful‚ her relationship with her husband

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    Tennessee Williams influenced playwrights in the 1950s and continues to do so today. His most popular works are Cat on a Hot Tin Roof‚ The Glass Menagerie‚ and A Streetcar Named Desire. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a story about a Southern family full of dysfunction and crisis. One of the main characters Brick‚ is having doubts about himself and it soon affects his marriage with his wife‚ Maggie. The play revolves around Brick and his extended family over the course of one evening. The Glass Menagerie

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    The Play In Tennesse Williams’ A Street Car Named Desire‚ Williams sets up the character of Blanche as soon as she is introduced in the play. Her desire‚ her heartbreak‚ her downfall‚ and her extremely complex past are all foreshadowed in Blanch’s first lines of the play‚ “They told me to take a street-car named Desire‚ and transfer to one called Cemeteries‚ and ride six blocks and get off at—Elysian Fields!” (Blanche Du Bois‚ 6). The street-cars‚ desire and cemeteries‚ are symbolic to Blanche’s character

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    A Streetcar Named Desire A Streetcar Named Desire‚ by Tennessee Williams‚ is a thrilling depiction of a woman’s fall from grace. Blanche DuBois‚ the protagonist of the story‚ is forced to move in with‚ or “visit‚” her sister in New Orleans. Throughout the play‚ Blanche struggles to accept her reality‚ and ultimately her fate. Blanche is misunderstood and driven to insanity by Stella’s practical husband‚ Stanley. This play portrays her journey from a dream land to total insanity. The play also

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    brothers gave him the name "Tennessee"‚ both because of his southern accent and his father’s background in Tennessee. He is considered one of the foremost American playwrights of the twentieth century and is best known for The Glass Menagerie‚ A Streetcar Named Desire‚ and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. At the age of seven‚ Tennessee was diagnosed with diphtheria which limited his ability to do a lot of activity. His mother would not allow him to waste his time‚ so she encouraged him to use his imagination. At

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    Death & the Past in “A Streetcar Named Desire” Our lives are consumed by the past. The past of what we have done and what we once accomplished. As we look back on these past memories we can realize the impact these events have on our present lives. The loss of a past love marks our future relationships‚ the loss of our family influences the choices we make today‚ and the loss of our dignity can confuse the life we live in the present. These losses or deaths require healing from which you need

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    Examine the construction of masculinity in A Streetcar Named Desire and Death of a Salesman. In both A Streetcar Named Desire and Death of a Salesman there is a male figure at the head of both families who assert and express their masculinity in quite dissimilar ways. Referring to the screen adaptations of both plays‚ Stanley Kowalski is a strong‚ aggressive and forthright individual whereas Willy Loman through stature as well as speech is a bumbling‚ weak and nervous fool‚ driven by his own delusions

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    stand as their own are debated. Christopher Durang’s “For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls” and Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs prove that parodies are a transformative use of the originals‚ Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire. The difference in the character’s personalities demonstrates how parodies can be seen as independent works.

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