Location Names and Meaning
- Street-car Named Desire
- Blanche’s inclination towards the pursuit of desires,such as sexual desires
- She’s seen flirting with Stanley in scene two
- She’s taking a journey, and every journey is a quest
- Metaphor for where Blanche's pursuit of her desires leads her
- Cemeteries
- Death in Blanche's life: she reveals later that several of her family members died
- The death of her spirit as she was left alone in her big estate and the death of her comfortable life in the estate as she now has to live in the city.
- Elysian Fields
- Allusion to Greek mythology
- Elysian Fields was the abode of the blessed after death
- This represents Blanche’s final stop. She will stay here for the duration of the play and her life.
- Belle Reve
- “Beautiful dream” in French
- Luxurious but not could not be kept up, became as distant as a dream, American dream?
- House
- faded images of luxury
- Once was heaven, but not anymore, faded stairs and paint