Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire is set in New Orleans and is about a Negro woman that is a fallen woman in society. The play shows the last months of Blanche DeBois’s life before her brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski, has her committed to an insane asylum. Blanche was once a lady of money and respect but turned into a drunken social pariah. She is a middle-aged woman that feeds on compliments from men.
In this scene Blanche comes off as an upper society woman that teaches high school English and needed a break so she decides to visit her sister. She has just went thru losing her parents and the family plantation due to the fact that she had no help from her sister and she couldn’t afford to keep up on it on her teaching s
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