A Streetcar Named Desire

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Summary: Excelent if you read deaper and find the sub-text
Review: If you read and think at the same time it is an excellent book. What about the relationship between the DuBois world and the Kowalski world. Conflicting aren't they. Think about it

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Summary: A Tale of the Fragile Mask of Respectability
Review: The moment Blanche DuBois stepped off the Streetcar named Desire the fragile mask she wore began to crack. Tennesse Williams writes a simple, poignant, and very provocative play about how life fails us in so many ways. From Bel Reve to the Elysian Fields is a terrifying path to demise. While, Stella can survive devolution maintaining societal respect Blanche in her desperation must break all societal norms to survive. The end of the play was brilliant in exploring the very concept of insanity. Perhaps insanity is simply survival outside of the dictates of society. Stan represents the resptraints, the judgements society places on individuals though he is not above this cycle of judgement. Williams demonstrates through all his characters that good, bad, or indifferent life can deal a losing Poker hand just as it can a royal flush.

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Summary: This play is the ultimate in 20th century drama.
Review: I was reading customer reviews, and all I saw were fed-up teenagers that couldn't stop for two seconds and THINK about what this play represents. It is a masterpiece of social commentary, and it shows a lot about how society can treat those that are different. To me, the play speaks were strongly. Everyone should read S.N.D., for if nothing more it is the most commonly quoted American dramatic work

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Summary: Dull....Very Dull!
Review: I choose this book because it seemed very interesting, also I had never read a play before. I would NOT recommend this book to anyone. There seems to be no plot and everyone acts encredibly dumb. I have to find three themes to this book and so far NONE!!!!

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Summary: The play is about lost innocence yielding to brute desire
Review: The play shows us that what we have always dreamed is not always what we are. More importantly, it shows us that we cannot escape who we are, lest we devolve into a state of fantasy, living a beautiful dream when the world around us is a nightmare. Williams is one of the premier playwrights of our time. And yet he is seriously underrated in modern courses in literature and on the modern stage. His themes are universal and ageless in that they center upon the fall from innocence that all human beings suffer upon learning that humanity is not beautiful. It is brute and desirous and akin to the raunchy yet realistic world of Stanley Kowalski. Blanche Dubois cannot live without embracing desire, embracing Stanley. And yet, she can never accept that she must desire. For that reason, she descends into madness, more content with the illusion that life is a beautiful dream, a belle reve, instead of an imperfect lesson in death and loss.

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Summary: Touching, sensitive, and perfectly human
Review: Tennesse Williams has great class when he writes, and in Streetcar, behind what seems to be simple language, is a quiet and most dignified portrayal of ourselves. He examines inter-human relationships by stating them so plainly, self-awarneness is an undeniable effect. It is honest, it is true to the human heart, it is a work from which we can learn of the effects of residing in yesterdays, and the fragility which time can render us.

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Summary: STANLEY THE MAN !
Review: People tend to dismiss the male protaganist of the play, it is ofcourse easy to single out a person and place the blame on a single individual. I think what Williams was trying to do was to show that there is rarely a perfect individual and often enough it is the combination that mixes best. Another underlying theme that it often comes to mind is the basic instinct of survival, if civilization and modern gadgets are taken away from us we will be reduced to the one common law that is always constant... The Law of Survival... those who adapt the fastest survive as in the Darwinian theory of evolution. AND THIS BOOK IS NOT BORING !

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Summary: A fine book with interesting concepts
Review: I read this book recently with my class group and we had great fun reading it.The obvious comparisons and great differences between the characters make the book interesting.Stanley's rawness and agressiveness gives me the impression of a true character,and his sweet,loving wife Stella,who is obviously much in love.But for me Blanche was the star, in the movie as well as in the play.Her character is complex and intriguing providing a fabulous role and great fun for an actress. Thumbs up,for Tenesse Williams!!! p.s.We enjoy it so much we are actually doing scenes of the play.....

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Summary: Streetcar, is not boring
Review: I thought it was excellent material for good actors. There are unstereotyped characters and a great story, about the loss of innocence and guilt. A most interesting book

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Summary: BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: I had to read this book for school. I do not recommend it to anyone. Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring. That sums it up. Blanche is out of her mind. Stanley is just mean and cold. Stella doesn't see the true colors of Stanley or Blanche. Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring