What is the main message of A Streetcar Named Desire?

A Streetcar Named Desire presents a sharp critique of the way the institutions and attitudes of postwar America placed restrictions on women’s lives. Williams uses Blanche’s and Stella’s dependence on men to expose and critique the treatment of women during the transition from the old to the new South.

Who yells Stella?

Marlon Brando
It honours local boy Tennessee Williams and his A Streetcar Named Desire. The movie version is notorious for the scene where Stanley, Marlon Brando in a tight white vest, yells “Stella-a-a-a-a-!” up the tenement stairs to his wife, so memorably that Brando never needed to act again (except, he said, for the money).

Why is it called a streetcar named Desire?

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE WAS NAMED AFTER A REAL STREETCAR LINE. Named for its endpoint on Desire Street in the Ninth Ward, the Desire line ran down Canal Street onto Bourbon and beyond.

What was the movie A Streetcar Named Desire about?

Based on the play by Tennessee Williams, this renowned drama follows troubled former schoolteacher Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) as she leaves small-town Mississippi and moves in with her sister, Stella Kowalski (Kim Hunter), and her husband, Stanley (Marlon Brando), in New Orleans. Blanche’s flirtatious Southern-belle presence causes problems for Stella and Stanley, who already have a volatile relationship, leading to even greater conflict in the Kowalski household.
A Streetcar Named Desire/Film synopsis

Why does Blanche bathe so often?

Blanche takes frequent baths throughout the play to “soothe her nerves.” Bathing is an escape from the sweaty apartment: rather than confront her physical body in the light of day, Blanche retreats to the water to attempt to cleanse herself and forget reality.

Why does Marlon Brando yell Stella?

Mentioned. Vernon ‘Brando’ Wilkes impersonates Marlon Brando and recites a line from the film. Haskell mentions “Brando in ‘Streetcar’.” A character shouts “Stella” after claiming he’s good at acting.

How is streetcar a tragedy?

The play is a tragedy because its protagonist suffers an unfortunate fate and is fundamentally destroyed and lost at the play’s end. Streetcar also qualifies as a tragic drama by adhering to the three unities of time, place, and action adapted from the Aristotelian rules for classic Greek tragedy.

How is Blanche’s drinking different from Stanley’s drinking?

Stanley’s drinking is social: he drinks with his friends at the bar, during their poker games, and to celebrate the birth of his child. Blanche’s drinking, on the other hand, is anti-social, and she tries to keep it a secret. She drinks on the sly in order to withdraw from harsh reality.