A Streetcar Named Desire

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Summary: Drama Critique
Review: A Streetcar Named Desire, is an interesting play written by Tennessee Williams. It is a play full of eye opening scenes. The Play is something that everyone can read if they are mature enough. If you are looking for a lesson or moral in the play then be prepared to search. At first the only lesson you may end up learning is life stinks according to this play, but you have to look deeper then the surface.
I think Tennessee Williams main point in writing was to show his audiences that life doesn't always go your way. Something or someone could always come up to make your life harder. Maybe it is something from the past or your present but you never know what is going to happen until it happens. You can see this in the play when Blanches past comes to get the better of her, and when her future becomes unpleasant.
From this play, I have personally learned to stay away from your desires because they will only lead you to the cemetery. The cemetery will only take you to Elysian Fields, which is the Greek word for a place like heaven. If you get on the Streetcar named Desire and follow the line until the end, your last stop will only mean death.
Another lesson that I learned is not to judge anyone by their outer appearance. Instead, get to know who they really are on the inside. You never know, the most beautiful people could have the ugliest hearts. Take in example, Blanche. She looked elegant, beautiful on the outside but on the inside was an old, ugly, liar. Also Stanley, on the outside he was muscular, handsome, a military man, but on the inside he was a mean, over controlling, abusive caveman.
In conclusion, this play was not, in my opinion, the best play to read. There has to be a certain maturity level to fully comprehend and understand this play. To anyone who feels up to a challenge and has a certain higher level of maturity, have at it!


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Summary: Nate's Review
Review: I did not like A Streetcar Named Desire because threw out the entire play there was arguing and fighting. I did not like the ending either because nothing really got resolved. I believe that Tennessee Williams's main purpose in writing this play was to tell people not to judge people right away.
The reason I believe this was his purpose for writing the play is because in the very beginning of the play I thought Blanche was a good person and Stanley was not. But after I found out that Blanche was lying about so many things I started to hate Blanche and side with Stanley. Then at the end of the play I hated both of them because Stanley raped Blanche and Blanch was mental and lied. Though I felt pity for Blanche it was no excuse for lying about her past and her future Stanley had an anger management problem which caused him to do some really bad things and Blanche wanted every thing her way and lied a lot.
Another thing I believe was Tennessee Williams's purpose in writing the play was to show you how life was around him. In this play Stanley drinks, plays poker and rapes his wife's sister. Also Blanche is mental and lies a lot.
One lesson I leaned from reading A Streetcar Named desire is that if you do not tell the truth you will get found out. Also not telling the truth may not only hurt you but other people's lives as well. Blanche lied a whole lot to everyone. She did not like the way her life was so she thought she would tell people what she thought ought to be true. Then finally everyone found out she was a liar. It not only hurt her but it hurt other people too.
I also learned that you should not be afraid about what other people think of you. If someone loves you only because you are rich or look good then you should not be with him/her. I believe this because Mitch would have liked Blanche if she told him the truth about her age and her past and if she said she was sorry for what she did. She also should have said she would never do that again. I don't think Mitch really cared about how old she was either, and I don't think he liked Blanche always being in the dark.
The last thing I learned is you should always tell the truth no matter if it is good or bad. It is easier to forgive someone if they told the truth then if they lied about it. Blanche told lies thinking it would get her out of trouble when actually it got her into worse trouble.
I would not recommend this play to you because nothing in my opinion gets resolved in the end. I would recommend this play to you if you don't care about the ending. The reason I think this is because other wise it is a interesting play.