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A fading Southern belle moves in with her sister and her brutal brother-in-law
1947Steady paceDark
What it is about
Blanche DuBois arrives in New Orleans to stay with her younger sister Stella and Stella’s husband Stanley Kowalski. Blanche clings to a refined image of herself, while Stanley is blunt and violent. Their conflict slowly breaks something open.
Who will enjoy it
Readers who want a famous American play.
What you will get
A short, powerful play. It won the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and contains scenes of abuse.
A Streetcar Named Desire Facts: Pages, Genre and Setting
Genre
Classics · Southern gothic · Fragility · Class
Length
142 pages · ≈ 4 h
More about this book
Characters
Blanche DuBois, Stella and Stanley Kowalski.
Setting
A cramped apartment in New Orleans in the 1940s.
What makes it different
A play that mixes poetry with raw domestic drama.
Feel
Intense, tragic and heated.
Persuasion
North and South
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Mrs Dalloway
The Gift of the Magi
Charlotte’s Web
The Picture of Dorian Gray