A Streetcar Named Desire
A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams

A Streetcar Named Desire Characters

Meet the Cast

Blanche DuBois

Blanche DuBois is a tragic figure. She’s out of place both geographically and temporally (that is, she's stuck in the wrong time). Blanche is lost, confused, conflicted, lashing out in sexual...

Stanley Kowalski

Unlike Blanche, whose past we learn about to some extent, we really don't have much back-story on Stanley, so we're left to learn about him from his actions during the present instead of finding ou...

Stella Kowalski

Stella is the mediating point between Blanche and Stanley. In many ways, we can interpret the conflict between Stanley and Blanche as a territorial battle over who gets Stella’s love and affe...

Mitch

Mitch and Blanche are an example of a co-dependent relationship that is founded on mutual loneliness and the desire to be with someone – anyone – to distract themselves from previously...