A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams, is set in New Orleans, Louisiana. ... 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!? ... The central theme of the play focuses on this clash of culture and personality. ... A Streetcar Named Desire is a very intense play about people and life and various views of reality. ... The clash between the gentile old south and the new south bring about the central and most important action in the play as ...

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• Grade Level: High School

It is the masterful portrayal of this age-old conflict between the sexes that serves as the dramatic centerpiece in both Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire- and Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House."" ... One of the minor themes of conflict running through the play is Torvald's own desire to control and dominate Krogstad. ... The conflict in the play is subtle and drawn out rather than explosive as in "A Streetcar Named Desire- - but control remains the source of all male/female conflict. ... Bloom, Harold, ed., Tennessee Williams (1986); Miller, Jordan Yale, Twenti...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate