A Streetcar Named Desire

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Summary: A Sorry State of Affairs
Review: Tennessee Williams' play, A Streetcar Named Desire, is about three depressing characters named Blanche DuBois and Stella and Stanley Kowalski. Of the three, Blanche, who is Stella's sister, is the most pathetic. The story is about her losing her sanity. It's almost like she is standing on a ledge and balancing back and forth until she finally falls off. Blanche sets the tone for what will eventually happen. She says in Scene I, "I was so exhausted by all I'd been through, my nerves broke. I was on the verge of lunacy, almost!" By the end, she is not on the verge any longer. She goes over the edge. She hints at it before the doctor and nurse come to take her away. "I'll be buried at sea sewn up in a clean white sack and dropped overboard -- at noon -- in the blaze of summer -- and into an ocean as blue as my first lover's eyes."

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Summary: Greatest Thing I've Ever Read
Review: This has got to be the best thing in the world. Tennessee Williams is brillant! Streetcar has made a scar in my head for as long as I live.. in my opinion, this play did what Jane Eyre tried to do, make a woman's life interesting. In simple words.. AMAZING!

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Summary: No Doubt
Review: stanley and stella are going to have a baby soon and so their little two room apartment will be too crowded for Blanch to stay. Besides, Blanche interferes with Stanley and Stella's relationship so they did the right thing in sending her away to the asylum.

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Summary: need more summary of the story from different people
Review: Well, I really don't have any comment for the story but I want someone please summarize the story for me "A Streetcar named desire" . I mean in term of the narrator point. Thank you very much.

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Summary: No doubt one of Williams' more tentative & sympathetic works
Review: I would like to stress that the reader from the US who stipulated in April of last year that this play was 'Dull... very dull', obviously has no serious interest whatsoever in modern literature, or indeed, quite possibly, serious literature of any kind. I am not arrogant, and I am more than happy to accept other people's opinions, but for them to say that they couldn't even specify three themes within the play is plain ridicuous. How can you study any kind of literature without being able to acknowledge the merits and even the structure of books that you don't like? I do not particulary care for Chaucer, but I can still see that it has some kind of literary basis. For you to dismiss one of the greatest & most acclaimed works of this century as 'dull' is beyond belief. I can identify more than 3 themes wiithout even thinking about it too hard. What about Blanche's ongoing descent into madness, the way in which she has problems distinuishing between truth & illusion, the way in which she consistently aggrovates Stanley & his marriage, the class distinctions, the distinctions between culture & so called 'neandertahlism', the distinctions between the old & the new, for example, the old streetcar & the new, more powerful locomotive, and, most notably, the theme of love? Blanche obviously needs security in the arms of a mutual love, and this is clearly portrayed throughout the whole novel. Perhaps you should take another read of the play so that you can make a more informed opinion. A Steetcar Named Desire is by no means 'dull', but one of the most interesting and enjoyable works from a great playwrite.

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Summary: This is by far the best play written by Tennessee Williams
Review: In this play, Tennesse Williams fully captures human emotion and how people interact with one another. It shows the tension between Stanley and Blanche very clearly and Stanley's hate for Blanche comes out without a question. He also fully captures the way that someone caught in the middle of an ongoing hatred will react when she has love for both of the people involved (Stella) This is a true masterpiece

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Summary: A Great Play!
Review: This is simply a fantastic play. The characters are fascinating, the events enthralling. I urge anyone interested in theater to read this book.

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Summary: A Modern Drama Classic
Review: Definitely one of the most important plays of our time. It is a hurricane of sex, deception, destruction, beer, violence, loss, heat, blood, sweat, and tears. And whoever says that this is boring is missing the point. In the play none of the characters are bad guys, least of all Stanley, or good guys, least of all Blanche. They are all just people trying to survive, and sometimes they don't always follow the rules...

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Summary: An opus of dimensions and immortal peronalities.
Review: William's Streetcar is without question a masterpiece; the tale of the haggard Blanche's futile search for kindness and her destruction at the hands of the barbaric Stanely speaks directly to the mind of any reader. It is a work that brings us to a deeper understanding of ourselves: what we think of Blanche's character, Stanely's nature and Stella's metamorphosis speaks directly to our own character and ideals. William's view that Blanche, for all her errors, retains her dignity and her concept of a "lady", never deliberately harming a soul, is an important reminder to us all: we are no one's judge. Streetcar is a story of survivors, of dimensions and of immortal personalities. It can be enjoyed on multiple levels, and is to be recommended to any reader.