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A Streetcar Named Desire
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- Slide 1:A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) by Tennessee Williams
- Slide 2:Setting New Orleans in the 1940s The French Quarter (also known as the Vieux Carre) is the downtown area of New Orleans. It is known for its rowdy nightlife: bars, hotels, restaurants, jazz music, brothels, Mardi Gras, etc.
- Slide 3:Basic Premise Blanche DuBois, an old maid on the verge of a nervous breakdown, pays an extended visit to her sister, Stella, in New Orleans. At the end of her rope and in need of some comfort and kindness, Blanche instead finds herself in conflict with Stanley Kowalski, her attractive but brutish brother-in-law.
- Slide 4: Blanche DuBois An old maid high school English teacher from Mississippi Her not-so-ex-gay husband
