A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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This engaging summary presents an analysis of 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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American playwright
Born in Columbus, Mississippi in 1911.
Died in New York in 1983.
Literary awards:
Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 1948 and 1955 (for A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
Tony Award for Best Play, 1951 (for The Rose Tattoo)
Four-time winner of the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play, 1945, 1948, 1955 and 1962 (for The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and The Night of the Iguana)
Notable honours:
President of the Jury at the Cannes Film Festival (1976)
Member of the American Theater Hall of Fame (inducted in 1979)
Kennedy Center Honors (1979)
Notable works:
The Glass Menagerie (1944), play
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), play
Suddenly Last Summer (1958), play
The Night of the Iguana (1961), play
Thomas Lanier Williams III, better known as Tennessee Williams, was born on 26 March 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi, in the heart of the Deep South. He had