In Street Car Named Desire, the play takes place right after World War II in New Orleans. The Kowalski apartment is in a poor but charming neighborhood in the French Quarter. Stella, twenty-five years old and pregnant, lives with her husband Stanley Kowalski. It is summertime, and the heat is overwhelming. Blanche Dubois, Stella's older sister, arrives unexpectedly, carrying all that she owns. Blanch and Stella have a warm reunion, but Blanch has some bad …showed first 75 words of 1356 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1356 total…but she only sought temporary relief from them to escape the terrors of loneliness. It seems what she really wants out of a relationship is someone who she can share life with and who will understand her. The sexuality that exudes from Stanley is too overwhelming for her to handle because it is REAL – it is blatant and tangible in his figure, and it is not just a figment of her powerful and overactive imagination