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A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (Book Analysis) 
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A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, which tells the story of two very different sisters, Blanche and Stella, who are forced to live together after Blanche loses both her job and the family home. However, the genteel, highly strung Blanche soon clashes with Stella’s boorish husband Stanley, and their volatile relationship hastens her impending mental and emotional collapse.
A Streetcar Named Desire won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and is one of Tennessee Williams’ most celebrated plays. Williams’s other works include
The Glass Menagerie,
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and
Suddenly Last Summer, and he is widely considered to be one of the greatest American playwrights of all time.



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