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A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams. A Streetcar Named Desire. Tennessee Williams. Life and personality reflected many of the problems he built into his characters. Considered a playwright who is a conspicuous exception to the dichotomy between “high” and “low” culture

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A Streetcar Named Desire

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  1. Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire

  2. Tennessee Williams • Life and personality reflected many of the problems he built into his characters. • Considered a playwright who is a conspicuous exception to the dichotomy between “high” and “low” culture • Williams’s version of the South = sexual ambivalence, self-delusion and irrational violence • Gives very specific directions as to how to stage the drama (music and light play important roles)

  3. Characters • Blanche Dubois – women in her 30s, homeless, focus of the play, moves in with her sister to a poor neighborhood in New Orleans • Stanley Kowalski – Blanche’s brother-in-law, often violent, “manly” • Stella Kowalski – normal, average, happy woman, foil to her sister • Harold Mitchell (Mitch) – young unmarried man who lives with his mother, attracted to Blanche • Eunice and Steve Hubbell, Young Man, Pablo Gonzalez, Colored Woman, Mexican Woman, A Doctor and a Nurse

  4. Your assignment for viewing the movie… • Every day we view the movie I want you to journal (at least one page in length) your questions and observations of what is happening, what characters say and do, and meaning of the actions and dialogue. If you are absent for the day just write it in the notes. These will be collected for a quiz grade at the conclusion of the movie.

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