Characters
This fragile Southern woman arrives in New Orleans to stay with her sister.
Blanche Dubois
The city where the play takes place.
New Orleans
Stanley throws this at Stella in Scene One.
Meat
This American dramatist wrote A Streetcar Named Desire.
Tennessee Williams
Illusion vs. this harsh opposite
Reality
Stella’s husband, known for his aggression and poker nights.
Stanley Kowalski
The name of Blanche’s lost family plantation.
Belle Reve
The game Stanley and his friends play the night Blanche meets Mitch.
Poker
This is the birth name of the playwright better known as Tennessee Williams, famous for A Streetcar Named Desire.
Thomas Lanier Williams
Conflict between the Old South and this new social order
Modern America
Blanche’s gentle love interest who lives with his sick mother.
Mitch
This recurring music represents Blanche’s trauma and memories.
Polka Music
Stanley discovers the truth about Blanche’s past in this town.
Laurel
This earlier play by Williams won him major success before Streetcar and centers on Amanda Wingfield
The Glass Menagerie
The destructive power of this force drives Stanley's actions
Blanche’s sister who chose Stanley over her old life.
Stella
The streetcar Blanche takes before arriving at Elysian Fields.
Desire
Stanley commits this violent act near the end of the play.
Assaulting Blanche
Williams won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Streetcar and this 1955 play about Brick and Maggie.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Blanche's downfall is tied to guilt over this persons death
Husband Allan
The young newspaper collector Blanche flirts with.
Young Man
Light symbolizes this truth that Blanche tries to avoid.
Reality/Aging
Blanche is taken to this place in the final scene.
Mental Institution
Many of Williams’s plays explore this region of the United States, often focusing on its decline and nostalgia.
The American South
The play suggests society treats the mentally fragile with this.
Cruelty/Neglect