Post 3

In my opinion the most important ideas/themes in the play are:
 Illusion: Blanche lives a fantasy; she is seeing the world not as it is but as it ought to be, she`s not able to face problems by her own. Stella must also resort to a kind of illusion, forcing herself to believe that Blanche`s accusations against Stanley are false so that she can continue living with her husband.
"A while later that evening--Blanche is seated in a tense hunched
position in a bedroom chair that she has re-covered with diagonal
green-and-white stripes. She has on her scarlet satin robe. On the
table beside chair is a bottle of liquor and a glass. The rapid,
feverish polka tune, the "Varsouviana," is heard. The music is in her
mind; she is drinking to escape it and the sense of disaster closing
in on her, and she seems to whisper the words of the song" (Scene 9. Page 151)
STELLA:
"And admire her dress and tell her she's looking wonderful. That's important with Blanche. Her little weakness!" (Scene 2. Page 34)
BLANCHE:
"You saw it before I came. Well, look at it now! This room is almost--
dainty! I want to keep it that way. I wonder if this stuff ought to be
mixed with something? Ummm, it's sweet, so sweet! It's terribly,
terribly sweet! Why, it's a liqueur, I believe! Yes, that's what it is, a
liqueur!" (Scene 9. Page 154)
BLANCHE:
“I like it dark. The dark is comforting to me” (Scene 9. Page 155)
BLANCHE:
I don't want realism. I want magic!
[Mitch laughs]
Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to
them. I don't tell truth, I tell what ought to be truth. And if that is
sinful, then let me be damned for it!--Don't turn the light on! (Scene 9. Page 157)
“Now she is placing the rhinestone tiara on her head before the
mirror of the dressing-table and murmuring excitedly as if to a group
of spectral admirers” (Scene 10. Page 164)
 Desire: This is the central theme of the play. Blanche deny it, although we later in the play, desire is oone of his driving motivations, her desires has caused her to be driven out of town. Physical desire, and not intellectual or spiritual intimacy, is the heart of Stella's and Stanley's relationship. Desire is also Blanche's undoing, because she cannot find a healthy way of dealing with her natural urges, she is always either trying to suppress them or pursuing them with abandon.
 Sex: It`s represented when Blanche went out with her student.
STANLEY
“...They locked her out of that high school before the spring term ended and I hate to tell you the reason that step was taken! A seventeen-year-old boy she'd gotten mixed up with! “(Scene 7. Page133)
In my opinion the title comes from a streetcar that ran along Desire Street, there are two important New Orleans neighborhoods mentioned, Desire and Cemeteries. This name is use to set one of the main themes of the play, we live our lives as if on a streetcar of desire unable to control our passions until the end…death.
The play made me think about people`s feelings as regards loneliness, for example people who live in the street alone homeless, without family or a friend just to talk and share her/his life and feelings, that`s why I think they look for a way out like drogs or alcohol. In this case, in the play, Blanche feels alone and her way out is by creating a new wold full of fantasy and illusion.
If I have the chance to ask the writer one question I would ask him: What about a happy ending? Maybe, if Stella and Stanley helped Blanche, she`ll be better during her days there, and she`ll be married with Mitch and maybe having a big family, something that both of them want.