Main Characters:
Stella Kowalski:
➔ Self-effacing
➔ Deferential nature
➔ Defined by her role as Stanley’s wife
Stanley Kowalski:
➔ Stanley is a macho man
➔ Married to Stella
➔ Early in the play, it is implied that he throws himself to his wife sexually while she
happily accepts.
➔ Raw
➔ Animal
➔ Violent sexuality
Blanch Dubois:
➔ Stella’s sister
➔ She was told to take a streetcar named Desire, then transfer to one called Cemeteries ride
six blocks, and get off at Elysian Fields
➔ Fading southern belle from Laurel, Mississippi
➔ English teacher
➔ Dressed in all-white
➔ Pretentious
Minor Characters:
Eunice:
Steve:
Shep Huntleigh:
➔ Dallas millionaire
Settings
Stanley, Stella, Steve, Eunice house:
➔ Two-story, white-frame
➔ faded corner building on a street called Elysian Fields
➔ Which runs between the train tracks and the river in New Orleans.
➔ The neighborhood is poor but has a “raffish charm.”
➔ Stella and Stanley live in the downstairs flat
➔ Eunice and Steve live in the upstairs house.
➔ Set in 1940
Plot:
➔ Blanche arrives
➔ Blanche tells Stella that Belle Reve (the Family plantation) was lost
Stella Kowalski:
➔ Self-effacing
➔ Deferential nature
➔ Defined by her role as Stanley’s wife
Stanley Kowalski:
➔ Stanley is a macho man
➔ Married to Stella
➔ Early in the play, it is implied that he throws himself to his wife sexually while she
happily accepts.
➔ Raw
➔ Animal
➔ Violent sexuality
Blanch Dubois:
➔ Stella’s sister
➔ She was told to take a streetcar named Desire, then transfer to one called Cemeteries ride
six blocks, and get off at Elysian Fields
➔ Fading southern belle from Laurel, Mississippi
➔ English teacher
➔ Dressed in all-white
➔ Pretentious
Minor Characters:
Eunice:
Steve:
Shep Huntleigh:
➔ Dallas millionaire
Settings
Stanley, Stella, Steve, Eunice house:
➔ Two-story, white-frame
➔ faded corner building on a street called Elysian Fields
➔ Which runs between the train tracks and the river in New Orleans.
➔ The neighborhood is poor but has a “raffish charm.”
➔ Stella and Stanley live in the downstairs flat
➔ Eunice and Steve live in the upstairs house.
➔ Set in 1940
Plot:
➔ Blanche arrives
➔ Blanche tells Stella that Belle Reve (the Family plantation) was lost
