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A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams is known for his powerfully written psychological dramas. Most of his works are set in the southern United States and they usually portray neurotic people who are victims of their own passions, frustrations, and loneliness. The play represents the conflict between the sensitive, neurotic Blanche DuBois and the crude, animalistic Stanley Kowalski. Blanche visits the home of her sister, Stella, in New Orleans and that is when Stanley started …

…this play, there were two streetcars mentioned. One was a streetcar named desire which symbolized Blanche’s desire to be loved. The other was a streetcar names Cemeteries which symbolized Blanche’s fear of death. Both the desire to be loved and the fear of death were quiet apparent in the way Blanche thought. She wished to be loved like she was with her husband, and she feared death, as it took her first love.