A Streetcar Named Desire, written by Tennessee Williams, tells a story set in 1920's New Orleans, where a man and his sister-in-law meet for the first time and develop a very tumultuous relationship. ... Blanche is the guest of Stanley and Stella, and Stanley is the host, so common customs, even in the 1920's, say that each should show mutual respect toward each other. ... His decision to betray Stella and rape Blanche because of his own selfish desires illustrates his transformation into the play's villain. ... Stanley's role as A Streetcar Named Desire's villain is ...

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A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams, is set in New Orleans, Louisiana. The play begins in the evening, early May of 1947, featuring a two-story corner building on an avenue named Elysian Fields, and ends in late September of the same year. ... She has just arrived as the play opens and explainsThey told me to take a street-car named Desire, and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at-- Elysian Fields!? ... A Streetcar Named Desire is a very intense play about people and life and various views of reality. ...

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The ending in Tennessee William's play A Streetcar Named Desire in which Blanche DuBois' sister Stella Kowalski leads her off to a mental hospital by a matron and a kind-hearted doctor was indeed inevitable. ... Blanche even said that desire brought her to where she is right now. Blanche's horrid past, which traumatized her throughout the play, which she reveals to be her husband ˜s suicide with a gunshot to the mouth because of Blanche's personal disgust with him sleeping with another man. ... Blanche's desire for love and intimacy leads to her husband's d...

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