1. Passion
Lust
DESIRE
Hot! Hot! Hot!

2. A Streetcar
Named Desire

3. Tennesse Williams Born Thomas Lanier Williams
Father- Cornelius Williams was a shoe salesmen that was an absent and emotionally abusive father
Mother- Edwina was a loving but smothering woman. She was the daughter of an Episcopal minister and lived the life of a Southern belle

4. Biography Continued
w  Sister- Rose, Williams’ older sister, was emotionally and mentally unstable and was later lobotomized. She was an inspiration for much of his work
w Williams struggled throughout his life with depression, drugs and his sexuality (which he later embraced)
w Tennesse Williams choked to death on the lid of a pill bottle in 1983

5. One More
Williams was a critically acclaimed playwright, winning two Pulitzer Prizes (A Streetcar named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
He was a “poetic realist” who used everyday objects that when seen repeatedly and in certain contexts, become imbued with symbolic meaning

6. SETTING
New Orleans

7. · The story takes place in New Orleans – sets the mood of the story
The Where and When
·  The story takes place in New Orleans – sets the mood of the story
·  Old world French architecture meets new world (growing sound of Jazz)
·  Old chivalry meets the animal instincts of desire and procreation
·  The facade of upper class refinement meets the growing lower class blue collar worker
·   Post World War II

8. Characters

9. Stanley Kowalski – Stella’s husband
Stella Kowalski – Stanley’s wife, Blanche’s younger sister
Blanche Dubois – Stella’s older sister
Harold Mitchell (Mitch) – Stanley’s friend, interested in Blanche
Steve Hubbell – Friend of Stanley, lives above the Kowalskis
Eunice Hubbell – Wife of Steve, friend of Stella’s

10. CONFLICTS Blanche’s fantasies vs. Reality
Blanche’s fantasies vs. Mitch
Blanche’s superiority vs. Stanley’s ego
Stella’s love for Blanche vs. Stella’s dependency on Stanley

11. THEMES/TOPICS Fantasy/Illusion vs. Reality
The Old South transforming into the New South
Cruelty
Primitive and the Civilized
Desire
Loneliness

12. Stella!!!!!