![]() Blanche criticizes Stella’s surroundings and laments Stella’s fall from their elite upbringing. ![]() ![]() Blanche tells Stella that Belle Reve, the family plantation, has been lost, and that she has been given a leave of absence from her teaching position due to her nerves. An English teacher (though hardly a schoolmarm), dressed in all white, she is delicate and moth-like. Williams uses a flexible set so that the audience simultaneously sees the interior and the exterior of the apartment.īlanche DuBois, Stella’s sister, arrives: “They told me to take a street-car named Desire, and then to transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at––Elysian Fields!” Blanche is a fading Southern belle from Laurel, Mississippi. Stanley and Stella Kowalski live in the downstairs flat of a faded corner building. The play is set in the shabby but rakishly charming New Orleans of the 1940s. ![]()
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