'A Streetcar Named Desire' Plot Synopsis

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'A Streetcar Named Desire' Plot Synopsis

When the play starts, we see Blanche DuBois arriving at Elysian Fields, Mississippi, looking for her younger sister Stella. She is shocked to find that Stella who is married to Stanley Kowalski, a polish man, is living in such a small apartment, in a rough part of town. Blanche goes into the apartment and waits. She is feeling a little tense so helps herself to an alcoholic drink. When Stella arrives both females are overly excited to see one another, however Blanche cannot hide that she is more than disappointed in Stella's choice of living. Blanche soon informs her younger sister about the loss of their family home Belle Reve. She explains to Stella that she had lots of debts to pay off, due to the deaths of several family members.

Stanley soon arrives home accompanied by two other men; Steve Hubbel, who lives upstairs with wife, Eunice, and Harold Mitchell, a.k.a. Mitch, who lives with his ill mother. At first Blanche and Stanley appear to get on fine, yet she is shocked by his lack of refinement. We also learn that Blanche had once been married.

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